OpenAI GPT-5.5 + Codex, now available and fully-governed in Databricks

Tushar_Parekar — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:36:41 GMT

Databricks now supports OpenAI GPT‑5.5 and Codex natively, so teams can use OpenAI’s latest frontier model for coding, agents, and document intelligence fully governed by Unity AI Gateway across AWS, Azure, and GCP

Key highlights

GPT‑5.5 on Databricks today: Use GPT‑5.5 directly from Databricks to power coding workflows with Codex or other coding agents, smarter enterprise agents, and richer document pipelines.

Governed by Unity AI Gateway: Apply one control plane for GPT‑5.5 and Codex with permissions, rate limits, guardrails (PII, prompt injection, unsafe content), observability, and a single bill.

Natural language analytics with Genie: Ask business questions in plain English with Genie, combining GPT‑5.5 with Unity Catalog semantics so every employee can safely explore governed enterprise data.

Stronger agents with Agent Bricks: Build GPT‑5.5‑powered agents in Agent Bricks to handle deeper, multi‑step workflows from document review to cross‑system business processes and deploy them as Databricks Apps.
GenAI ETL and document intelligence: Chain GPT‑5.5 into Spark Declarative Pipelines for summarization, extraction, and classification over real‑world documents, with built‑in governance and monitoring.

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