Databricks and Anthropic partner to help companies build AI agents

AI and data analytics company Databricks has announced a five-year strategic partnership with Anthropic AI to offer their AI models and services on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The collaboration gives customers access to Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s latest AI reasoning model via Databricks on Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud. 

The companies have said that the partnership will help enterprises build, deploy and evaluate AI agents while meeting needs of accuracy, security and access control. 

Besides building AI agents, enterprises can customise the Claude models or fine-tune them with enterprise data and build their own tools. 

“As demand for data intelligence grows, our partnership with Anthropic allows enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data through AI,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks. “We are bringing the power of Anthropic models directly to the Data Intelligence Platform—securely, efficiently, and at scale—enabling businesses to build domain-specific AI agents tailored to their unique needs. This is the future of enterprise AI.”

“At Anthropic, we’re watching AI transform businesses right now - not as some future promise,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-founder at Anthropic. “This year, we’ll see remarkable advances in AI agents capable of working independently on complex tasks, and with Claude now available on Databricks, customers can build even more powerful data-driven agents to stay ahead in this new era of AI.”

Databricks has over 10,000 customers such as Comcast, Conde Nast and Block. 

Rival AI analytics firm Snowflake recently announced partnerships with Anthropic and Microsoft to make Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the Azure OpenAI Service available from their cloud data platform.