Kernel Factory

Databricks placed second out of over 300,000 submissions in Meta's Muse Spark Open Kernel Challenge, achieving an average 2.5x speedup over SGLang kernels. Its Kernel Factory lets AI agents autonomously hill-climb toward better kernels, with Opus 5.5 proving the strongest model for GPU kernel optimization. The kernels ship straight into production, powering Databricks Unity Gateway and customer AI inference.