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After the $1 billion acquisition, Neon’s serverless Postgres architecture will be integrated with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, allowing developers to quickly build and deploy AI agents without having to concurrently scale compute and storage. This approach can prevent performance bottlenecks while simplifying infrastructure and reducing cost, Databricks says.
Many of the tasks AI agents perform require launching a database for information retrieval, but that can take several minutes, slowing responses, the company noted. Neon’s ability to create near-instant database instances allows AI agents to react quickly. Additionally, databases can be flooded with requests from multiple agents, also hampering speed; Neon can create separate copies of database content for each individual agent.
According to recent internal telemetry, 80% of databases on the Neon platform are created automatically by AI agents rather than humans. Neon says it can spin up a fully-isolated Postgres instance in 500 milliseconds or less, and supports instant branching and forking of database schemas as well as data, so production isn’t halted.
