Latest Databricks News & Updates

See the latest news and media coverage for Databricks. We track all announcements, press releases, and industry mentions in real time, all in one place.

Databricks

Unified data and AI platform

databricks.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 14,000+
Industry: Software

Last updated October 22

Latest news about Databricks

In short: Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation and expanded its AI platform.

Company announcements

October 21 Databricks

Databricks announces AI Runtime general availability

This release provides fully managed GPU infrastructure for training foundation models with enhanced speed, security via Unity Catalog, and integrated observability.

October 14 Databricks

Databricks launches Private Network Gateway for serverless networking

The new managed gateway simplifies secure connectivity from serverless workloads to private networks on Azure and AWS by eliminating per-resource proxy deployments.

September 9 Databricks

Databricks releases Adaptive Instructed-Retriever for faster search

The model combines parallel and sequential retrieval to match third-party quality at double the speed, optimizing cost through online reinforcement learning.

August 27 Databricks

Databricks announces Lakebase and lakehouse innovations at VLDB 2026

Co-founder Reynold Xin delivers the opening keynote on agentic database paradigms while engineers present four technical papers on streaming architecture, query optimization, and view maintenance frameworks.

Media coverage

October 22 Crypto Briefing

Databricks passes $7B run rate as growth accelerates to 80%

Databricks tops a $7 billion revenue run rate with 80%+ growth and raises $5 billion at a valuation of approximately $190 billion.

October 1 Seoul Economic Daily

SBVA Joins $5 Billion Funding Round for Databricks

SBVA joined a $5 billion funding round for U.S. big data platform developer Databricks, which was valued at $190 billion.

September 30 note

Databricks Anatomy

On August 13, 2026, Databricks completed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation. In the same announcement, they disclosed that their annualized...

September 24 The Information

Databricks Acquires Microsoft Excel Competitor Row Zero

Databricks is acquiring Row Zero, a five-year-old Microsoft Excel competitor that sells spreadsheet software that's designed for analyzing massive amounts of data. The deal could...

Never miss news about Databricks

Track Databricks and your other target companies to get real-time alerts and weekly summaries delivered straight to your inbox.

Databricks competitors & trending companies

Browse news for competitors to Databricks and other trending companies.