India, Jan. 6 -- Microsoft announced the acquisition of Osmos, a Seattle-based startup specialising in agentic AI for data engineering. The technology and the Osmos team will join the Microsoft Fabric engineering organisation to develop autonomous data processing capabilities within Microsoft's unified analytics platform.

Osmos, founded in 2019 by former Microsoft and Google engineers Kirat Pandya and Naresh Venkat, focuses on simplifying the data lifecycle. The startup's tools use large language models (LLMs) to automate the ingestion, cleanup, and transformation of raw data. Microsoft plans to embed these "data agents" directly into Microsoft Fabric to reduce the manual burden faced by data teams.

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