Databricks launches Genie One as an enterprise home for AI cowork

Genie Search is a hybrid search that indexes documents, tickets and wikis from tools such as Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, Workday and SharePoint. It also supports more than 100 MCP connectors for live lookups and actions, such as checking or creating a Jira ticket. Genie chooses between search, MCP and SQL depending on the query.

Genie One can create slide decks, dashboards and interactive pages within a conversation, and scheduled tasks can keep their data current. It can update tools like Jira and Asana through MCP connections, and users can choose which actions need approval. Skills can be published to Unity Catalog and run with the permissions of the person using them.

Genie is available as a Chrome extension, desktop apps for macOS and Windows, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and Slack and Microsoft Teams apps. Genie plugins also bring it into ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Grok Bot. Unity Gateway records a trace for each request, covering the question, cited objects, response time and actions taken.

Builders of agents for enterprise users can reach them through MCP connectors, Slack, Teams and several other AI assistants, with Unity Catalog permissions carried over. Teams deploying agents should plan for admin-side controls, since traces, MCP policies and approval requirements are built in. Genie One is free for users through January 31, 2027, and more detailed cost controls are promised before then.