- Published on September 9, 2025
- In Global Tech
Databricks Says Enterprises Are Flying Blind on AI Agents, And It Has a Fix
The data and AI company bets on its Agent Bricks and Lakehouse to help companies build agents that solve problems.
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Ankush Das
Enterprises worldwide are still wrestling with the challenge of taking AI agents from polished demos to working production systems. Databricks thinks it has cracked the problem with two key innovations, Agent Bricks, a framework for domain-specific AI agents, and Lakebase, an AI-native operational database. Both are part of the company’s larger push to unify data, analytics, and AI.
Recently, the company announced that it hit a $4 billion revenue run-rate, surpassing $1 billion from AI, and is raising $1 billion Series K at over $100 billion valuation to expand Agent Bricks, Lakebase, and global AI growth.
Nick Eayrs, VP of field engineering for APJ at Databricks, in an exclusive interaction with AIM, said he believes the missing piece has been automation in evaluation and optimisa
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Ankush Das
I am a tech aficionado and a computer science graduate with a keen interest in AI, Coding, Open Source, Global SaaS, and Cloud. Have a tip? Reach out to ankush.das@aimmediahouse.com
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