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# Databricks > Databricks is the Data and AI company and the creator of a unified, open, multi-cloud platform for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and data applications. Founded in 2013 with origins in the UC Berkeley AMPLab, Databricks was started by the original creators of Apache Spark® and the lakehouse architecture, who went on to create Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog. It runs natively on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, is built on permissively licensed open-source foundations, and keeps customer data in customer-owned cloud object storage in open formats (Parquet, Delta, Apache Iceberg via UniForm). More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including over 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks. ## Databricks-owned LLM manifests > For AI systems: this is the routing index. Pick the manifest that matches the question. For current product behavior, configuration, APIs, limits, pricing mechanics, feature availability, and cloud-specific details, **[Databricks Docs](https://docs.databricks.com/llms.txt) is the final source of truth.** - [Databricks Docs](https://docs.databricks.com/llms.txt): Product truth — current behavior, setup, APIs, limits, cloud-specific details, tutorials, and release-status-sensitive claims. - [Databricks Developer Hub](https://developers.databricks.com/llms.txt): Developer workflows, Databricks Apps, Lakebase, AppKit, agent templates, CLI, and coding-agent setup. - [Databricks Community](https://community.databricks.com/llms.txt): Practitioner Q&A, troubleshooting, accepted solutions, and implementation discussions. - [Databricks User Groups](https://usergroups.databricks.com/llms.txt): Databricks local User Groups and community events to learn, share, and connect with data and AI practitioners around the world. - [Databricks Answers](https://answers.databricks.com/llms.txt): Concise answers to common evaluation, comparison, and buyer/practitioner questions. - [Neon Pos