Friday’s AI Report
• 1. 🤝 Databricks gives Enterprise access to OpenAI models
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• 3. 🌍 How AI reduced checkout congestion for this grocery store
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• 5. 💡 Partner Perspectives
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🚀 Altman’s “favorite” feature launches
• 8. 🔥 Musk offers Grok to US gov for ¢42
• 9. 📑 Recommended resources
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Databricks gives Enterprise access to OpenAI models
🚨 Our Report
Data and analytics platform Databricks has signed a $100M multi-year deal with OpenAI to integrate its AI models into its platform, giving business users access to advanced AI tools (that can be used alongside its own AI agent, Agent Bricks) without needing to exit the platform.
🔓 Key Points
Agent Bricks allows companies to build AI agents with their own data using a range of AI models, and now OpenAI’s models, including its most advanced model, GPT-5, will be one of the options.
OpenAI believes that this partnership will bring its most advanced models “to where secure enterprise data already lives, making it easier for businesses to experiment, deploy, and scale AI agents with real impact.”
Databricks will pay OpenAI a minimum of $100M p/y, regardless of whether its users choose the GPT models: If the GPT models make more than $100M, Databricks will need to pay extra; if less, OpenAI still gets $100M.
🔐 Relevance
For business leaders, this signals a shift in how AI will be deployed across industries: instead of buying separate AI tools, companies will find powerful models already integrated into the platforms they use. This could lower costs, shorten implementation times, and expand access to advanced AI for teams that aren’t highly technical, which could give early adopters a competitive edge.
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GPT-5 Codex: From Debugger to Full Stack Teammate
By Jake George · Founder of Agentic Brain
The AI Report Partner Perspectives Column
“GPT-5 Codex transforms coding agents from ‘helpers’ into autonomous builders.”
GPT-5 Codex marks a turning point for coding agents, evolving from bug-fix helpers to autonomous builders that manage full projects and test their own work. For businesses, this shift saves not just minutes but hours—accelerating builds and enabling non-developers to create dashboards, automations, and full apps.
How AI reduced checkout congestion for this grocery store
This grocery store was struggling with checkout congestion (ie. long customer wait times), high labor costs, and poor customer feedback.
They deployed Caper AI, AI-powered smart shopping carts that allow customers to scan items as they shop.
Then, rather than unloading their items at a fixed checkout, the cart totals items continuously and allows them to pay at the cart itself.
As a result, checkout congestion and the number of costly cashiers were reduced, and the overall customer experience improved.
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OpenAI has launched a new feature (which CEO Sam Altman is calling his “favorite yet”), “ChatGPT Pulse”, which delivers personalized morning updates, specifically on topics users are interested in.
Currently rolling out to Plus and Enterprise, ChatGPT Pulse pulls insights from trusted news and data sources, tailoring them to users’ preferences so they get relevant headlines and context in one email-style report.
According to Altman, this new feature marks a shift from developing reactive, on-demand chatbots that simply do as they’re told, to proactive AI that anticipates needs and “briefs you before you even ask.”
Elon Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, is giving the US government access to its AI chatbot, Grok, for just ¢42 per user, p/y (for 1 ½ years), with the “symbolic” low price highlighting Musk’s “commitment to public service.”
This comes after Grok was recently approved (in August) by the General Services Administration (despite generating controversial posts) to become an official vendor of the Whitehouse.
Musk’s deal undercuts rivals, OpenAI and Anthropic, who have offered their chatbots (ChatGPT and Claude) to federal agencies for $1 per user, p/y, and analysts believe that this could shape how public institutions adopt AI.
Is offering Grok to the US government for ¢42 a genuine commitment to help public services or a competitive move by Musk?
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