Starburst Wants to Make AI Agents Useful. It Starts With Fixing Data Access.

At the end of the day, your AI is only as powerful as the data it can access.
When enterprise teams experiment with AI today, they rarely start from scratch. More often, they begin with fragmented data spread across cloud buckets, SaaS tools, legacy databases, and on-prem infrastructure each governed by different policies, formats, and stakeholders. For most organizations, this patchwork isn’t just a nuisance. It’s the bottleneck standing between AI pilots and real production use. That infrastructure problem is where Starburst is placing its bet. The Boston-based data platform, known for its open-source roots in Trino and distributed SQL analytics, is expanding its scope. This week, the company announced a set of AI-focused upgrades across its two core products, Starburst Enterprise and Starburst Galaxy including a new built-in agent, vector-native AI sear
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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