Microsoft acquired agentic AI data engineering firm Osmos in a move to bolster the cloud giant’s Fabric platform.

Osmos was founded by former Google Cloud colleagues Kirat Pandya and Naresh Venkat in 2019. Its technology uses agentic AI to process raw data into analytics that can be used in various data lakes, which in the case of Microsoft is its OneLake data platform within the Fabric offering.

“This acquisition builds on Microsoft Fabric’s goal to enable customers to unify all data and analytics into a single, secure platform,” Bogdan Crivat, corporate VP for Azure Data Analytics at Microsoft, noted in a blog post on the deal. “With the acquisition of Osmos, we are taking the next step toward a future where autonomous AI agents work alongside people – helping reduce operational overhead and making it easier for customers to connect, prepare, analyze and share data across the organization.”

Microsoft unveiled its Fabric platform in mid-2023. It’s designed as an analytics platform that integrates Microsoft’s Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI tools into a single offering.

OneLake is the embedded data lake offering, providing a unified storage system with user-prescribed security and data sharing rules. OneLake currently supports data ingestion from a number of sources, including Databricks and Snowflake.

That platform will now be bolstered by the Osmos deal.

Financial details and timing on the deal were not provided, but it appears the integration will be moving quick. Osmos in a “frequently asked questions” on the deal, noted that its current products “will be sunset starting in January 2026.” This includes its AI-Assist Suite, Data Agents for Databricks, and Data Agents for Microsoft Fabric.

The firm had raised $18 million in total, including a $13 million Series A funding round in 2021, according to Crunchbase. Pandya, who served as CEO, previously spent time at Microsoft.

“Microsoft shares our belief that the future of data engineering is AI-native, deeply integrated, and built for enterprise scale,” Pandya wrote in a blog post on the deal. “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.”