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title: "OpenAI GPT-5.5 + Codex, now available and fully governed on Databricks"
description: "Databricks announces native support for OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, making it available for coding workflows with Codex, enterprise agents, document pipelines, and data-driven employee workflows. Access is governed through Unity AI Gateway, which provides permissions and rate limits, configurable guardrails for PII, prompt injection, and content safety, MCP tool-call auditing, failover, and request-level observability for model and Codex interactions. The announcement describes GPT-5.5 use with Genie for natural-language analytics, Agent Bricks Custom Agents for multi-step workflows, and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines for document-focused GenAI ETL involving summarization, extraction, and classification. GPT-5.5 is available on Databricks across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with entry points including AI Playground, governed Codex endpoints, Agent Bricks, and the Foundation Model API."
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# OpenAI GPT-5.5 + Codex, now available and fully governed on Databricks

[Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks) · Patrick Wendell, Hanlin Tang, Ahmed Bilal, Arnav Singhvi, Ivan Zhou, Harish Gaur · Apr 24, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Databricks announces native support for OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, making it available for coding workflows with Codex, enterprise agents, document pipelines, and data-driven employee workflows. Access is governed through Unity AI Gateway, which provides permissions and rate limits, configurable guardrails for PII, prompt injection, and content safety, MCP tool-call auditing, failover, and request-level observability for model and Codex interactions. The announcement describes GPT-5.5 use with Genie for natural-language analytics, Agent Bricks Custom Agents for multi-step workflows, and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines for document-focused GenAI ETL involving summarization, extraction, and classification. GPT-5.5 is available on Databricks across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with entry points including AI Playground, governed Codex endpoints, Agent Bricks, and the Foundation Model API.

## Context

Databricks customers need to apply frontier models and coding agents to enterprise data while maintaining centralized security, cost controls, governance, and observability across model calls, agent workflows, and coding interactions.

## Approach / What changed

Databricks provides native GPT-5.5 support through Unity AI Gateway and integrates it with Codex, Genie, Agent Bricks Custom Agents, and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines. The gateway centralizes permissions, rate limits, configurable guardrails, MCP tool-call auditing, failover, logging, and consolidated billing.

## Takeaways

- Unity AI Gateway governs both GPT-5.5 inference and Codex coding workflows through one control plane, logging identity, tokens, latency, and cost in customer-owned Delta tables.
- Agent Bricks Custom Agents can use GPT-5.5 for more complex multi-step workflows, including document analysis and departmental business-process automation, before deployment as managed, serverless Databricks Apps.
- Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines can chain GPT-5.5 into GenAI ETL for document summarization, extraction, and classification, with governance and observability built into the pipeline.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/topic/databricks), [Lakeflow](https://yomu.fyi/topic/lakeflow), [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm), [MCP](https://yomu.fyi/topic/mcp)

- Source: [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/openai-gpt-55-now-available-databricks-fully-governed-through-unity-ai-gateway)
- Source URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/openai-gpt-55-now-available-databricks-fully-governed-through-unity-ai-gateway
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-31T03:41:13.337Z

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