Databricks announced at its Data + AI Summit 2026 that Grok models are now natively available inside Agent Bricks, its developer agent platform. The partnership with SpaceXAI (the merged entity of xAI and SpaceX) means enterprise teams can now build AI agents powered by Grok directly on top of their existing Databricks Lakehouse data, without moving it anywhere.
What Agent Bricks actually is
Agent Bricks is Databricks' answer to a question every engineering team building AI agents has run into: the core agent loop is easy, but everything around it is not. Databricks found that the core agent loop is just 1% of the work, while the other 99% is the hidden technical debt of agentic systems: token capacity, deployment, security, evaluation, monitoring, context, and sharing.
Agent Bricks launched at last year's Data + AI Summit, and since then over 100,000 agents have been built on it, with the platform now processing more than one quadrillion tokens per year. Customers including AstraZeneca, 7-Eleven, Fox Corporation, and Block have all shipped agents on top of it.
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