--- title: From RAG to ontology: Databricks bets on context as the... description: Databricks has unveiled Genie Ontology, currently in preview, which automatically extracts business context from enterprise data sources and organizes it into... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-rag-to-ontology-databricks-bets-on-context-as-the-key-to-trusted-ai-agents-ftjlhhcsd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From RAG to ontology: Databricks bets on context as the key to trusted AI agents | daily.dev og:description: Databricks has unveiled Genie Ontology, currently in preview, which automatically extracts business context from enterprise data sources and organizes it into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-rag-to-ontology-databricks-bets-on-context-as-the-key-to-trusted-ai-agents-ftjlhhcsd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fTjlhhcSD.png og:image:alt: From RAG to ontology: Databricks bets on context as the key to trusted AI agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From RAG to ontology: Databricks bets on context as the key to trusted AI agents **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Databricks has unveiled Genie Ontology, currently in preview, which automatically extracts business context from enterprise data sources and organizes it into a graph that AI agents can use to understand how an organization operates. Using a PageRank-inspired ranking system, it identifies the most authoritative business definitions across an organization. Analysts see promise in the approach — a unified context layer could improve consistency and trust in AI outputs — but warn that data quality and governance readiness remain critical hurdles. They also note growing vendor confusion as Snowflake, Microsoft, and others pursue similar semantic and context-layer offerings under different names. The broader picture is a race among data platform vendors to become the enterprise AI control plane, with Databricks positioning its lakehouse as the foundation for agentic AI through a combination of LTAP, OpenSharing, and Genie Ontology. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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