https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/how-does-genie-look-under-the-hood/m-p/157331#M1818 <P>Hi everybody,</P><P>I'm using Genie for some time which is really great. In order to improve and before recommending it more users within our company I need to get more insights on Genie including but not limited to:<BR /><BR /></P><OL><LI>Is it correct that the “thinking” part is not being executed on the associated Databricks clusters rather than on a VM (or similar runtime) on appropriate Cloud provider resources managed by Databricks?</LI><LI>If so, is there only one LLM ‘execution engine’ as per (Azure) subscription? Or per (Azure) tenant? Or multiple?</LI><LI>Is the LLM ‘execution engine’ the same for Genie Spaces and Genie Code?<BR />Or how many are available within the background?</LI><LI>Performance within our enviroment is decreasing month by month. Currently 20 seconds for response on "WHat can you do for me?" <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span><BR />What can I do to change it? Request change to Databricks account?</LI><LI>Which (customized) LLM is used by Genie? GPT or Claude?</LI></OL><P>Would be great to get insights on this as otherwise using Genie and Databricks more will be difficult.</P> Wed, 20 May 2026 13:12:40 GMT michael365 2026-05-20T13:12:40Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/how-does-genie-look-under-the-hood/m-p/157331#M1818 <P>Hi everybody,</P><P>I'm using Genie for some time which is really great. In order to improve and before recommending it more users within our company I need to get more insights on Genie including but not limited to:<BR /><BR /></P><OL><LI>Is it correct that the “thinking” part is not being executed on the associated Databricks clusters rather than on a VM (or similar runtime) on appropriate Cloud provider resources managed by Databricks?</LI><LI>If so, is there only one LLM ‘execution engine’ as per (Azure) subscription? Or per (Azure) tenant? Or multiple?</LI><LI>Is the LLM ‘execution engine’ the same for Genie Spaces and Genie Code?<BR />Or how many are available within the background?</LI><LI>Performance within our enviroment is decreasing month by month. Currently 20 seconds for response on "WHat can you do for me?" <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span><BR />What can I do to change it? Request change to Databricks account?</LI><LI>Which (customized) LLM is used by Genie? GPT or Claude?</LI></OL><P>Would be great to get insights on this as otherwise using Genie and Databricks more will be difficult.</P> Wed, 20 May 2026 13:12:40 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/how-does-genie-look-under-the-hood/m-p/157331#M1818 michael365 2026-05-20T13:12:40Z