What is an AI Assistant?
Databricks, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Databricks publishes an explainer defining AI assistants and the components behind them.
Databricks explains what an AI assistant is and how one works. The article describes how assistants combine language models, data retrieval, and reasoning to understand and act on user requests.
It distinguishes assistants from raw model access by the surrounding retrieval and orchestration layers.
The explainer is part of a series of educational posts for teams building enterprise AI applications.