Summary
In early July 2026 Databricks renamed Genie Spaces to Genie Agents and began enabling agent mode by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile. Agent mode uses multi-step reasoning to answer complex business questions by running multiple SQL queries, iterating on results, and returning a report with citations, visualizations, and supporting tables.
What changed
Databricks renamed Genie Spaces to Genie Agents and, in July 2026, is enabling agentic mode by default for compliance-security-profile workspaces; the mode runs multi-step reasoning across multiple SQL queries and returns cited reports with visualizations and supporting tables. Genie products also move to pay-as-you-go pricing on July 6.
Why it matters
Turning multi-step agentic analytics on by default in regulated workspaces moves autonomous data agents from opt-in experiment to standard enterprise BI behavior, and the rename signals Databricks framing Genie as an agent platform rather than a query surface.
Evidence excerpt
Agent mode in Genie Spaces will be enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in July 2026... running multiple SQL queries, iterating on results, and returning a report with citations, visualizations, and supporting tables.