Databricks introduces Adaptive Instructed-Retriever for enterprise data agents

matei_zaharia · x · 2026-09-10

Databricks announced Adaptive Instructed-Retriever, a retrieval approach for enterprise data agents that combines the speed of parallel retrieval with the performance of sequential search, while maintaining strict cost and latency guarantees. The core idea: only spend additional search steps when they are useful. Shared by Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia.

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