DatabricksIQ trust and safety

Databricks understands the importance of your data and the trust you place in us when you use Databricks services. Databricks is committed to the highest standards of data protection and has implemented rigorous measures to ensure your information is protected.

• Your data is not used for training and our model partners do not retain your data.

  • Neither Databricks nor our model partner (Azure OpenAI) trains models using customer data. Your code and input are not used to generate suggestions displayed for other customers.

  • Data submitted by Databricks in these features is not retained by Azure OpenAI, even for abuse monitoring. These features have been opted-out of Azure’s retention of data for that purpose.

• Protection from harmful output. Databricks also uses Azure OpenAI content filtering to protect users from harmful content. In addition, Databricks has performed an extensive evaluation with thousands of simulated user interactions to ensure that the protections put in place to protect against harmful content, jailbreaks, insecure code generation, and use of third-party copyright content are effective.

• Databricks uses only the data necessary to provide the service. Data is only sent when you interact with AI-assistive features. Databricks sends your natural language input, relevant table metadata, errors, as well as input code or queries to help return more relevant results for your data. Databricks does not send row-level data.

• Data is protected in transit. All traffic between Databricks and Azure OpenAI is encrypted in transit with industry standard TLS encryption.

• EU Data Stays in the EU. For European Union (EU) workspaces, AI-assistive features use an Azure OpenAI model hosted in the EU. See Databricks Geos: Data residency and Databricks Designated Services.

Features governed by the Partner-powered AI assistive features setting

Partner-powered AI refers to Azure OpenAI service. Following is a breakdown of features governed by the Partner-powered AI assistive features setting:

Feature	Where is the model hosted?	Controlled by Partner-Powered AI setting?
Databricks Assistant chat	Azure OpenAI service	Yes
Quick fix	Azure OpenAI service	Yes
AI-generated UC comments (Compliance security profile (CSP) workspaces)	Azure OpenAI service	Yes, for all CSP workspaces
AI-generated UC comments (Non-CSP workspaces)	Databricks-hosted model	No, for non-CSP workspaces
AI/BI dashboard AI-assisted visualizations and companion Genie spaces	Azure OpenAI service	Yes
Genie	Azure OpenAI service	Yes
Databricks Assistant autocomplete	Databricks-hosted model	No
Intelligent search	Azure OpenAI service	Yes

Use a Databricks-hosted model for Databricks Assistant

Preview

This feature is in Public Preview.

Learn about using a Databricks-hosted model to power Databricks Assistant. This section explains how it works and how to use it.

How it works

The following diagram provides an overview of how a Databricks-hosted model powers Databricks Assistant.

1. A user prompts the Databricks Assistant either by typing code or a question, selecting Diagnose Error, or highlighting a cell.

2. Databricks attaches metadata to a request and sends it to a Databricks-hosted large-language model (LLM). All data is encrypted at rest. Customers can use a customer-managed key (CMK).

3. The user request is sent to the Databricks-hosted model.

Databricks-hosted models use Meta Llama 3.x

The Databricks Assistant with Databricks-hosted models is currently built with Meta Llama 3. Meta Llama 3 is licensed under the Meta Llama 3 Community License, Copyright © Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

FAQ about Databricks-hosted models for Assistant

Can I have my own private model serving instance?

Not at this time. This preview uses Model serving endpoints that are managed and secured by Databricks. The model serving endpoints are stateless, protected through multiple layers of isolation and implement the following security controls to protect your data:

• Every customer request to Model Serving is logically isolated, authenticated, and authorized.

• Mosaic AI Model Serving encrypts all data at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+).

Does the metadata sent to the models respect the user’s Unity Catalog permissions?

Yes, all of the data sent to the model respects the user’s Unity Catalog permissions. For example, it does not send metadata relating to tables that the user does not have permission to see.

Where is the data stored?

The Databricks Assistant chat history is stored in the control plane database, along with the notebook. The control plane database is AES-256 bit encrypted and customers that require control over the encryption key can utilize our Customer-Managed Key feature.

Note

• Like other workspace objects, the retention period for Databricks Assistant chat history is scoped to the lifecycle of the object itself. If a user deletes the notebook, it and any associated chat history is deleted in 30 days.

• If the notebook is shared with another user, the chat history is also visible to that user unless it is cleared first.

• If the notebook is exported, the chat history is not exported with it.

• If an admin has access to the notebook, they can open it and see the chat history.

Can I bring my own API key for my model or host my own models?

Not at this time. The Databricks Assistant is fully managed and hosted by Databricks. Assistant functionality is heavily dependent on model serving features (for example, function calling), performance, and quality. Databricks continuously evaluates new models for the best performance and may update the model in future versions of this feature.

Who owns the output data? If Assistant generates code, who owns that IP?

The customer owns their own output.

Opt out of using Databricks-hosted models

To opt out of using Databricks-hosted models:

1. Click your username in the top bar of the Databricks workspace.

2. From the menu, select Previews.

3. Turn off Use Assistant with Databricks-hosted models.

To learn more about managing previews, see Manage Databricks Previews.