# Databricks launches Genie as AI firms race for office workers

> Databricks and Anthropic are both pushing AI tools designed to make knowledge workers more productive, signalling the industry's shift beyond software engineers.
- Title: Databricks launches Genie as AI firms race for office workers
- Summary: Databricks and Anthropic are both pushing AI tools designed to make knowledge workers more productive, signalling the industry's shift beyond software…
- Keywords: databricks, genie, anthropic, ai agents, knowledge workers, ai productivity tools, Fortune
- Source: Fortune — https://fortune.com/2026/11/11/databricks
- Author: Alexei Oreskovic
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: databricks, genie, anthropic, ai agents, knowledge workers, ai productivity tools
## Databricks launches Genie assistant
San Francisco startup Databricks launched agentic AI tools on Wednesday that continuously analyze and organize data scattered throughout a business, aiming to transform how office workers do their jobs.
## CEO claims tenfold productivity boost
Databricks CEO and cofounder Ali Ghodsi told Fortune the agents run in the background all the time. He said it has made him a ten times better CEO than he was a year ago.

> I personally use it every day. Every hour of the day.
## Anthropic releases competing productivity tools
A day before Databricks' launch, Anthropic released AI productivity tools for corporate users, including an AI-powered spreadsheet application competing with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
## Knowledge work represents forty trillion dollars
Anthropic says in its IPO prospectus that knowledge workers performed more than forty trillion dollars in economic value globally in twenty twenty-five, with AI's potential to make them more productive.
## Databricks valued at one hundred ninety billion
Databricks, still privately held, raised five billion dollars at a one hundred ninety billion dollar valuation in August. Anthropic's IPO, expected next week, could value it at one point four trillion dollars.
## Ghodsi backs Nvidia CEO despite scandal
When asked about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair with a woman U.S. officials believe to be a Chinese spy, Ghodsi said Huang should continue as CEO and the AI revolution is too big to…

> I think we will weather through this storm.
## Key takeaway

Databricks launched Genie, an AI assistant that works in the background to help office workers, as the AI industry competes to expand beyond programmers into broader corporate markets.