Databricks unveils new suite of AI tools

Data and AI company Databricks has unveiled a new line of tools designed to help enterprises take AI agent projects beyond the pilot phase and into production.

The new tools have been developed to help organisations deploy AI agents in mission-critical applications. They include Mosaic AI Gateway, a central platform for integrating and managing open source and commercial AI models with unified governance and monitoring.

The AI/BI Genie Conversational API suite is meanwhile designed to enable developers to embed natural language chatbots into custom-built apps or popular productivity tools including Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint and Slack. It enables users to programmatically submit prompts and receive insights from a familiar interface.

An upgraded Agent Evaluation Review App aims to make it easier for domain experts to provide feedback and customise evaluation criteria for AI-powered projects, enabling teams to continuously refine AI agent performance and drive systematic accuracy improvements. Finally, the Provision-Less Batch Inference tool offers a new way to run batch inference with Mosaic AI using a single SQL query.

Databricks Senior Director of Product for AI/ML Craig Wiley said the new tools are now available in public preview.

“Many enterprises still struggle to deploy AI agents in high-value use cases due to concerns around accuracy, governance and security. For these organisations, it’s confidence, not just technology, that presents the biggest hurdle to extracting the full data intelligence benefits of generative AI,” he said. “The new tools address these challenges head-on, enabling businesses to move beyond pilots and into full-scale production with AI agents they can trust.”

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