Claude Opus 5 Is Now Generally Available on Azure Databricks
Anthropic’s flagship model has landed in the enterprise data stack. Claude Opus 5 is now generally available on Azure Databricks through AI Model Serving, giving teams a managed path to Anthropic’s top-tier reasoning and agentic model without leaving the Databricks platform they already run their data workloads on. For organizations that have been building on […]
Azure Databricks Lakebase Branching Gets GitHub Copilot Agent Mode
Azure Databricks has quietly closed a gap that every data engineer hits at some point: how do you safely test change against a production database without risking the real thing? The answer, now in public preview, is Lakebase branching with GitHub Copilot agent mode. It lets developers spin up an isolated copy-on-write branch of a […]
Debug AI Apps Against Production Data Without Exposing Production Data
Azure Databricks just shipped something that makes me wonder why this didn’t exist years ago. You can now create copy-on-write branches of your Lakebase production database with a single command, then point GitHub Copilot agent mode at it for debugging AI apps and agents. No copy of production data floating around in staging environments that […]