Data Lake / Data Warehouse Modernization · Real-time Analytics · Risk Management
OpenAI’s data platform powers one of the fastest-scaling products in tech history. ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and the internal tools used by thousands of OpenAI employees require a foundation that can withstand sudden growth, run governed analytics across multiple business units, and operate across multiple clouds simultaneously.
Reported impact
OpenAI achieved measurable business impact on Databricks, including $400K/month Storage costs eliminated by marketing team; Since 2024, OpenAI has leveraged Databricks in Azure and AWS, with usage data landing in Delta tables governed by Unity Catalog ..
OpenAI’s data platform powers one of the fastest-scaling products in tech history. ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and the internal tools used by thousands of OpenAI employees require a foundation that can withstand sudden growth, run governed analytics across multiple business units, and operate across multiple clouds simultaneously. That foundation has grown up around Databricks. Since 2024, OpenAI has leveraged Databricks in Azure and AWS, with usage data landing in Delta tables governed by Unity Catalog . Databricks Jobs and Data Warehouses transform that data through layered pipelines to serve product analytics, finance, security, and trust, and safety teams.
Operational, customer, and transactional data lands in Databricks and is transformed through managed pipelines stored in Delta Lake under Unity Catalog governance before being served through Databricks SQL, Genie
$400K/month Storage costs eliminated by marketing team
Databricks also supports AI-assisted investigations: Codex agents can query governed security data through SQL APIs.
OpenAI’s Security team uses Databricks to detect cybersecurity threats across high-volume infrastructure, cloud, and vendor audit logs.
OpenAI’s data platform powers one of the fastest-scaling products in tech history.
Since 2024, OpenAI has leveraged Databricks in Azure and AWS, with usage data landing in Delta tables governed by Unity Catalog .
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