Cofounder, Databricks
Search every verified Patrick Wendell interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On April 24, 2026, Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell appeared in a conversation with OpenAI CRO Denise Holland Dresser to discuss the launch of GPT-5.5 and the ongoing partnership between the two companies. Wendell described GPT-5.5 as a "really high quality model" and stated that it was his "most exciting model launch in a while." He announced that GPT-5.5 had become the "state-of-the-art model" for a particular workload after internal testing. Wendell shared anonymous user feedback describing the model as "a big step up from GPT 5.4" and noted its improved planning capabilities. Wendell discussed Databricks' focus on helping enterprise customers deploy AI agents, emphasizing the importance of both data and AI. He noted that while frontier models provide intelligence, accessing internal company data remains a challenge because "that data is messy" and "spread out." He also raised the issue of cost management, stating that "costs can get out of control once the use of AI tokens starts to really ramp." Wendell expressed optimism about expanding the use of GPT-5.5 beyond coding into other areas like marketing and data analytics, and said Databricks plans to make the model broadly available through its AI gateway product.
“So, we've invested very heavily in a product called Genie. You should think of it like the genie in the bottle that can answer your questions. And what that's all about is getting any worker in a company that really needs to use data for their job. That could include someone in sales. It could include someone in market...”
“And at any given time there's a leaderboard with you know who's doing the best. So so what makes Office QA a bit different as I said is it involves a lot of these fairly complex tasks around extracting data from documents and combining data across different sources and things that when you're working between applicatio...”
“And I also think whether you're a traditional developer or you're someone who wants to build but maybe didn't have the skill set to do so, the idea that we can all be builders, myself included, who is not a software engineer by training, the idea that we can all lean into a new way of thinking is really incredible. So...”
“Our focus is like we certainly want to build a healthy company that could be a public company. We are generating cash and have healthy margins, which shows that we are not just chasing growth but also profitability.”
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Speakers: Patrick Wendell, Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Databricks Kasey Uhlenhuth, Staff Product Manager, Databricks At the Data and AI Summit, we announced several new capabilities that make Databricks Mosaic AI the best platform for building production-quality AI systems. These features are based on our experience working with thousands of companies to put AI-powered applications into production. Announcements include support for fine-tuning foundation models, an enterprise catalog for AI tools, a new SDK for building, deploying, and evaluating AI Agents, and a unified AI gateway for…
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