Today, more people than ever want to learn data and AI so we're expanding what they can build. Twelve months ago, we launched Databricks Free Edition with one goal: make Databricks the best place to learn modern data and AI skills.
Since then, we’ve given $10M+ in free credits to more than 500,000 people learning, experimenting and building on Free Edition. Builders have used Free Edition to learn data engineering, train machine learning models, analyze real datasets, and build AI agents. In our inaugural Free Edition Hackathon, participants submitted projects ranging from space weather analysis that predicts power grid failures, to an NLP-powered recipe recommendation engine.
Building on that momentum, we're expanding what's possible in Free Edition with five new additions: Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer. With these additions, Free Edition now includes every core Databricks practitioner feature, giving users a complete toolkit for building end-to-end data and AI projects.
Genie has always made it easy to ask questions about your data in plain English. With Genie Code, it now goes a step further — generating, running, and iterating on code autonomously on your behalf. Ask Genie to analyze a dataset, clean a pipeline, or build a visualization, and it will write the code, execute it, interpret the results, and refine its approach based on what it finds. It's like having a data engineer and analyst working alongside you, available the moment you open Free Edition.
Free Edition now includes access to GPUs, subject to availability. GPUs are essential for modern deep learning workloads, like training neural networks, fine-tuning models, running inference, and processing large datasets. With GPUs in Free Edition, builders can take on advanced AI projects for free, while Databricks handles the compute behind the scenes.
Lakebase brings a fully managed Postgres-compatible database to Free Edition, purpose-built for data apps and AI agents. With Lakebase, you can build transactional applications that sit directly on your lakehouse — no separate infrastructure, no data silos, no reconciliation headaches. It's the same database layer enterprises use to power production AI applications, now available to every Free Edition user from day one.
Agent Bricks is our new framework for building production-ready AI agents on Databricks. It provides pre-built, composable components — tools, memory, orchestration, and evaluation — that let you move from idea to working agent in a fraction of the time. Instead of stitching together libraries and frameworks from scratch, Free Edition users can now use the same building blocks that power enterprise AI agents at scale.
Lakeflow Designer makes it easier to build data pipelines visually. You can design data flows, connect steps, and see how data moves through your pipeline without starting from a blank page. For learners, this makes data engineering easier to understand by letting you build real pipelines directly in Databricks.
The best way to learn data and AI is to build. With these additions, Free Edition now includes every core Databricks practitioner feature, spanning data engineering, analytics, machine learning, app development, and AI agents. Users now have a complete, free toolkit for building end-to-end data and AI projects.
Free Edition is available now. Sign up, open Genie, and run your first analysis in seconds. We're proud of what half a million of builders have already created and learned - and we can't wait to see what comes next.
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