Databricks said on Wednesday it would buy database startup Neon in its latest deal valued at about $1 billion, aiming to strengthen its analytics platform with technology that can help businesses develop and use artificial intelligence agents more easily.

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion.

Databricks is signaling its intent to get ahead in this next generation of app building, announcing it will purchase open-source serverless Postgres company Neon. The startup’s platform can spin up new database instances in less than a second, making it purpose-built to support agentic workflows.