New feature
GA
Knowledge Assistant
Knowledge Assistant is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced June 2025.
Agent Bricks capability: a managed, document-grounded Q&A chatbot that answers questions over your uploaded documents with citations.
- Rather than plain similarity search it uses an "Instructed Retriever" that learns how each knowledge source is organized - Databricks claims up to 70% higher answer quality than simplistic RAG, with page-level citations on every response.
- Its January 2026 general availability came with an asterisk - select US regions only, and only for workspaces without the Enhanced Security and Compliance add-on; HIPAA workspaces had to wait until March 2026 to get it by default.
Limitations: Files larger than 100 MB are skipped during ingestion, as are PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT and PPTX files with more than 500 pages and any file whose name starts with an underscore or a period. For Unity Catalog table sources only the selected content column is ingested, and AI Search indexes must use one of three supported embedding models (databricks-gte-large-en, databricks-bge-large-en, or databricks-qwen3-embedding-0-6b).
Open in REbricked →- Category
- AI / ML
- Also known as
- Knowledge Assistant Agent
- Verified
- 2026-08-20