If data gravity was the most important force in the Decade of Data, agent gravity will be the same in the Decade of Agents. Agents are wonderfully powerful technologies & they require tremendous compute to power. That compute is big business & major platforms will fight to keep them on their platforms. The more agents & data running through a platform, the greater the agent gravity.
The most recent episode with a new Databricks feature on Microsoft’s platform :
While this was not the feature’s stated purpose, it essentially made it easier for Power BI customers to manage their data and build AI agents in Databricks instead of a competing data management offering from Microsoft, called Fabric.-
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So what’s going on :
If DBX customers can create data pipelines & manipulate their data through agents, then the person building those agents - or the agent itself - will decide where to run the agent (agent gravity) & where to process the data (data gravity). These agents can siphon the knowledge in the semantic layer, migrate the data into other cloud data warehouses, & publish data to other BI systems.
Very quickly, users, knowingly or unknowingly, can migrate the profitable agent workloads & data warehouse workloads to a new platform.
Winning & sustaining agent gravity is the motif of the Decade of Agents.