Source: Databricks — 2026-07-06
Summary
Databricks published a recap of its deepening partnership with OpenAI, anchored by a fireside chat between OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and co-founder Patrick Wendell. The centerpiece is that OpenAI's Codex is now natively available on Databricks, governed through Unity AI Gateway so every Codex interaction is auditable, cost-controlled, and compliant before it touches production data or systems.
Key Takeaways
- Codex is now natively available on the Databricks platform, branded under Databricks' Agent Bricks initiative.
- Unity AI Gateway sits in front of every Codex interaction, making usage auditable, cost-controlled, and policy-compliant by default rather than bolted on afterward.
- Distinct from Databricks' separately-covered internal benchmark comparing coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase (the GLM-5.2 story) — this is the OpenAI/Codex integration angle specifically.
- Announced in the wake of Data + AI Summit 2026, which drew more than 30,000 attendees to Moscone Center in San Francisco.