# Block uses Databricks gateway to provide model access in Buzz

_Published Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM EST · AI, Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Block employees use Databricks Unity Gateway to access frontier and open-weight AI models inside Buzz, its open-source workspace for people and agents, Databricks said. Employees can choose models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google through one integration, then bring agents into conversations with colleagues for coding, analytics and other work.

Buzz supports different coding tools and can run privately on an organisation's own systems. Block is also experimenting with teams in which a more capable model coordinates smaller models, using internal benchmarking to study how those combinations affect performance and cost.

## Sources

- [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-block-powers-collaborative-ai-agents-buzz-and-unity-gateway)

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Published: 2026-11-12T16:40:33.083Z
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Retrieved: 2026-11-12T19:00:11.422Z
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