Patrick Wendell on Genie product
From How OpenAI and Databricks are working together · · Databricks
“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 marketing. It's really a very pervasive set of concerns. Uh just helping them be able to use natural language to go in and get really high quality answers to questions and things they're trying to explore in order to get their job done.”
On , Patrick Wendell, Cofounder at Databricks, spoke about Genie product during How OpenAI and Databricks are working together on Databricks.
About Patrick Wendell
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.