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Exploring the latest Genie developments over the last month - What's New in Genie July 2026

Summary: Tobi Wole-Fasanya shared recent developments in Databricks Genie, highlighting features like Genie Ontology for knowledge mapping, the evolution of Genie One into an agentic coworker, customizable homepages, multi-fact relationships, and custom visualizations with Vega-Lite. Simon Kuijpers expressed excitement about the Ontology feature, and Tobi Wole-Fasanya agreed, noting its impact. Abdelhalim Dadouche thanked Tobi Wole-Fasanya for the information.
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In the past month, Databricks Genie has witnessed several exciting announcements and developments and it can be hard to keep up. We summarised some of them here and we’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences:

1. Genie Ontology maps and ranks your business's knowledge — Auto-builds a living knowledge graph from your tables, queries, and dashboards, ranking sources so Genie answers with the right context.

2. Genie One has evolved into your agentic coworker — Genie One goes beyond BI to a work hub that can access your email/docs, run scheduled tasks, and use custom reusable skills.

3. Customise your Genie One homepage — Admins can brand the Genie One landing page with logos, colors, a welcome message, and pinned Spaces/dashboards to guide users.

4. Multi-fact relationships and cross-dataset measures — Model multiple fact tables on shared dimensions to build measures (like sell-through rate) that span datasets without pre-joining in SQL.

5. Custom visualisations with Vega-Lite — Build custom chart types using the open Vega-Lite library while keeping governance and dashboard filters intact.



Here is a link to the full article: https://aibilakehouse.substack.com/p/multi-fact-relationships-customise

4 comments

Really excited about Ontology.

Me too! Really changes the game

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the summary!

Love the ability to create user skills in Genie One. And you can directly tell Genie One to do this for you.