Microsoft supercharges Fabric with new data tools to accelerate enterprise AI workflows

Today, Microsoft kicked off its Ignite conference, talking about all things AI, including how it has assembled the largest AI agent ecosystem and will allow enterprises to build more such apps using any of the 1,800 large language models it has on offer.

The move — a significant departure from the long-standing reliance on OpenAI — promises enhanced flexibility to developers, but we all know AI is just ‘garbage in and garbage out’ without a solid data foundation. 

To this end, Microsoft also announced a series of updates for Fabric, its end-to-end SaaS data platform. According to Arun Ulag, the corporate VP of Azure data, the biggest development is the integration of transactional databases, which will transform Fabric into a truly unified, open data platform bringing all the necessary technologies together in one place to build next-gen AI applications, including advanced agents. 

Other notable capabilities, some of ...