# Databricks CEO proposes Snowflake buy AI tokens through Databricks

> Original title: all good beef happens on X 🥩🥩🥩

- Source: Jerry Liu
- Published: 2026-10-28T23:24:05.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/yscytl4qdj61ldm083yj57st1
- Original: https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2115585425112986010

## Summary

Ali Ghodsi, Databricks' CEO, says the two companies are complementary and suggests Snowflake get its AI tokens through Databricks' Unity Gateway. He says Databricks customers reduced token spend about 30% over recent months while token count rose, and he asks Snowflake for a quick proof of concept.

## Post

all good beef happens on X 🥩🥩🥩

## Quoted post @alighodsi

> I don't think we should fight. The two companies are complementary. Since you're not doing this AI stuff, I really think Snowflake should consider getting its AI tokens through Databricks. You can get both cheap OSS models as well as frontier (OAI/Ant/Gemini/Grok) models from our platform. It all goes through Unity Gateway which has Smart Routing, Budgets, and Access Control. You can even use Omnigent with any harness, including CoCo. Most of our customers used this to reduce token spend ~30% last few months while token count went up. Genie lets you then track, control, manage that spend, all your financials, marketing, etc. Quick POC?

https://x.com/alighodsi/status/2115560493897371766