Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.
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New Databricks KARL RAG Agent Promises 33% Cost Reduction vs. Claude Opus 4.6

Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower ...
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Building a RAG system on Databricks with your unstructured data using Tonic Textual

Databricks and Tonic.ai have partnered to simplify the process of connecting enterprise unstructured data to AI systems to reap the benefits of RAG. Learn how in this step-by-step technical how-to.
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Databricks commits to $100 million in OpenAI spending as high-valued startups team up in AI

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Databricks, which offers companies tools for building agents on top of their data, plans to spend at least $100 million over multiple ...