Databricks updates Genie to run multi-step jobs unsupervised
Original title: Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
CEO Ali Ghodsi demoed it on surveys and a failed sales pitch; Unity Gateway can cap usage and swap models.
Databricks unveiled an updated Genie agent that the company says completes extended multi-step jobs without supervision, using an ontology over customer data on its platform. CEO Ali Ghodsi showed his own agent reviewing weak employee-survey scores, a poor sales pitch, and podcast preparation. He said Unity Gateway can set usage limits and substitute less expensive open-weight models.
Unconfirmed: Unsupervised task completion is described by Databricks and shown in one CEO demonstration.
- Ghodsi said Databricks has about 12,000 employees, above Dunbar's number of 150.
- He said he uses Genie personally instead of OpenClaw, Instinct, or Muse.
- The company is pitching Genie as an always-on agent for business leaders.
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- Databricks
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At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie agent for that.
By Julie Bort · techcrunch.com
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