Unlock Powerful Insights and Forecasts with Predictive AI Functions
Databricks, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
Databricks launches Predictive AI Functions for forecasting, anomaly detection and driver analysis without ML expertise.
Databricks introduced Predictive AI Functions that let business users and SQL analysts create forecasts, detect anomalies, analyze metric drivers and make predictions without advanced ML skills or building and maintaining models.
The launch includes an upgraded ai_forecast plus new ai_top_drivers, ai_detect_anomalies, ai_predict_value and ai_predict_class.
The functions work in Genie and can be embedded in existing workflows.