New feature
GA
AI Playground
AI Playground is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced December 2023.
A no-code chat environment in the Databricks workspace for interactively testing, prompting, and comparing LLMs side by side, and for prototyping tool-calling agents and question-answering bots that can then be exported to code.
- It has moved house in the sidebar - in December 2023 you found the Playground item under Machine Learning, and today the docs send you to Playground under AI/ML.
- Pressing the + adds another endpoint to the same chat, so several models answer the same prompt at once and you can compare their responses next to each other.
- It learned to prototype and export tool-calling agents in September 2024, and two years later that is the part the docs call legacy - chatting with models is still fine, but agents now go to the Agent Bricks CLI.
Limitations: Building agents in AI Playground is a legacy approach; to build and test agents, the docs point to the Agent Bricks CLI and running the agent locally with agentbricks dev.
Open in REbricked →- Category
- AI / ML
- Also known as
- Playground, Databricks AI Playground, LLM playground
- Verified
- 2026-10-14
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs
- Official Databricks docs: Legacy agent offerings (agent building in AI Playground)
- Official Databricks Blog: Creating High Quality RAG Applications with Databricks (December 6, 2023) - introduces the new interactive AI Playground
- Official Databricks release notes: Prototype and export tool-calling AI agents in AI Playground (September 24, 2024)
- Official Databricks release notes: Use vector search indexes to prototype tool-calling agents in AI Playground (April 23, 2025)
- Official Databricks release notes: AI Playground is now GA (August 1, 2025)