Databricks releases enterprise data agent benchmark, Genie accuracy 91%
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Databricks partnered with Turing to build an enterprise data agent benchmark, testing business questions in live Databricks workspaces. Databricks says Genie paired with Genie Ontology achieved a 91% task pass rate, while two frontier agents scored 45% and 58% respectively; Genie used less than half their average token usage and was 3-4x faster. Reproducing the benchmark in your own workspace or obtaining it requires contacting the customer team. Meanwhile, Databricks announced the general availability of Genie Ontology. In this layer, agents continuously learn business context from dashboards, SQL queries, notebooks, and BI semantic models, while humans govern key definitions through Unity Catalog. Genie Search currently supports Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, and Workday, with SharePoint in Beta; the external knowledge source feature is in Beta and can connect to external BI platforms and generate Ontology Snippets; the visual interface Ontology Manager will enter Beta subsequently.
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- Nov 11 23:00 · 1 reportsDatabricks releases enterprise data agent benchmark and publishes Genie evaluation resultsDatabricks Blog:Genie with Genie Ontology Delivers 1.6× the Accuracy with Less than Half the Tokens
- Nov 11 23:00 · 1 reportsDatabricks announces general availability of Genie OntologyDatabricks Blog:Announcing GA of Genie Ontology
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- Databricks BlogFeaturedAnnouncing GA of Genie Ontology
Databricks announced the General Availability of Genie Ontology, an agentic ontology layer that agents build by learning from dashboards, SQL queries, notebooks and BI semantic models, while people govern definitions through Unity Catalog semantics. The release adds Genie Search (GA), Ontology Snippets (GA), external knowledge sources (Beta, starting with Power BI), organizational directories (GA, starting with Workday), Domains and Pages (GA), and Ontology Manager (coming soon in Beta). In a benchmark built with Turing simulating a Databricks workspace for a fictional UK energy supplier, Genie answered correctly in 91% of runs versus 45% and 58% for two frontier agents, using less than half the tokens and finishing three to four times faster.
- Databricks BlogGenie with Genie Ontology Delivers 1.6× the Accuracy with Less than Half the Tokens
Databricks developed a new enterprise data-agent benchmark with Turing, run in a live Databricks workspace, in which Genie achieved a 91% pass rate versus 45% and 58% for two frontier agents while using fewer than half the tokens and completing tasks 3–4x faster. The benchmark, built around a fictional UK energy supplier called Calderwick Energy, includes notebooks, dashboards, saved SQL queries and documents alongside hundreds of tables, testing whether agents can find and use business context that table schemas alone cannot provide. Genie Ontology, now generally available, automatically extracts and organizes this knowledge and surfaces relevant context for Genie.
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