Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks
Databricks open-sources Omnigent, a meta-harness to combine, control, and share agents across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.
“CDC is brittle enough to joke that it means “continuous data corruption,””— Matei Zaharia
Databricks cofounders Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin unveiled Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness providing a common API above coding and enterprise agent frameworks, alongside data products like LTAP and Lakebase. The move positions the now-$175B company as a full data-and-AI operating system and signals that agent portability, security, and unified storage are becoming central infrastructure battlegrounds for the agent era.