The new Genie: autonomous AI for complex enterprise work

Databricks introduces the new Genie, an autonomous AI coworker that continuously handles long-running enterprise work, tracking progress, following up on missing inputs, and taking action as new information arrives, with users setting guardrails and approving where needed. It is supported by Genie Ontology for business context, Genie Search for hybrid enterprise search, Unity Gateway and Unity Catalog for governance, and new capabilities including artifacts, MCP connectors, Genie Agents, and plugins for tools such as ChatGPT and Claude. Databricks reports that in a new benchmark built with Turing, Genie answered correctly in 91% of task runs, 1.6 times the rate of the stronger frontier agent, while using less than half as many tokens.