By Rebecca Gibson |
Microsoft has acquired US-based startup Osmos and will integrate its agentic AI data engineering platform into Microsoft Fabric, enabling organisations to analyse and share data more easily.
Osmos uses large language models to automatically ingest, clean and transform raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets in OneLake, the unified data lake at the core of Fabric. By embedding Osmos into Fabric, Microsoft will enable organisations to eliminate the manual, time-consuming and expensive processes involved in collecting and preparing data for analysis.
“This acquisition builds on Microsoft Fabric’s goal to enable customers to unify all data and analytics into a single, secure platform,” said Bogdan Crivat, corporate vice president of Azure Data Analytics at Microsoft, in a Microsoft blog post. “With the acquisition of Osmos, we are taking the next step towards a future where autonomous AI agents work alongside people – helping reduce operational overhead and making it easier for customers to connect, prepare, analyse and share data across the organisation.”
The Osmos team will join the Fabric engineering organisation.
“Microsoft shares our belief that the future of data engineering is AI-native, deeply integrated, and built for enterprise scale,” said Kirat Pandya, CEO of Osmos, in a statement. “Fabric provides the foundation – OneLake, unified governance and a rapidly growing ecosystem – on top of which autonomous data engineering can truly thrive. By bringing Osmos’s technology and team into Microsoft, we have the opportunity to accelerate what we’ve been building and deliver it to a far broader audience – directly where customers already operate their data platforms.”