Databricks

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Databricks sells a unified data and AI platform: warehousing, analytics, and model training and serving over one lakehouse. It is bought by data engineering, analytics and ML teams at enterprises, metered in consumption units.

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November 2026
- Databricks ships Spark 4.3 in Runtime 19 (opens in a new tab)
  
  11-05 Release databricks.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Databricks made Apache Spark 4.3 available in Databricks Runtime 19.
- Databricks shows Snorkel running a database per pull request (opens in a new tab)
  
  11-01 Campaign databricks.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Databricks published a customer write-up on Snorkel AI giving each open pull request its own copy-on-write.
September 2026
- Databricks' Genie One data agent reaches every model over MCP (opens in a new tab)
  
  09-23 Release databricks.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Databricks took the Genie One MCP server to general availability.
August 2026
- Databricks raises $5B at a $190B valuation, oversubscribed 3x (opens in a new tab)
  
  08-14 Funding techcrunch.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Databricks set out to raise $1B and closed $5B at a $190B valuation.