Every data platform now says its agents understand your business. Here is what Microsoft, Databricks, Snowflake, Google, AWS, Oracle and the open standards have actually shipped, with release stages, plus what we are learning building Kenseme.
Every major data platform now ships a layer that tells agents what the business means. At FabCon and SQLCon Europe 2026 Microsoft took the biggest step yet, putting Fabric IQ into Microsoft 365 Copilot, extending the ontology, bringing app building to Power BI Pro and adding policy, audit and observability for agents, alongside OneLake, Real-Time Intelligence and SQL updates. Here is everything announced, with release stages, and where the rest of the industry stands.
Databricks made the Genie One MCP server generally available, enforcing Unity Catalog permissions on every call. The beta endpoint shuts down on October 31, 2026.
Google made conversational analytics in BigQuery and the Conversational Analytics API generally available, grounded in LookML, approved example queries, Knowledge Catalog and graph data.
The July 2026 MCP revision removes the initialize handshake and session IDs, lets clients cache tool lists, moves tasks into a new extensions framework and deprecates several older features.
The Open Semantic Interchange has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation's incubator as Apache Ossie, with more than 50 organizations involved.
At Data + AI Summit 2026 Databricks made Genie One, Genie Agents and Genie Code generally available, added domains and a business glossary to Unity Catalog, extended Agent Bricks and put guardrails, spend controls and tracing for agents into Unity AI Gateway. Here is everything announced, with release stages.
Databricks put Genie Ontology into public preview. It builds a graph that links metrics, business terms, tables and teams, and respects existing permissions.
At Build 2026, Microsoft made Fabric IQ, Graph in Fabric and operations agents generally available. The ontology item stays in preview, with general availability expected in the coming months.
At Summit 2026, Snowflake renamed Snowflake Intelligence to CoWork, made MCP connectors generally available, opened Semantic Studio in private preview and exposed semantic views over MCP.
At Next 26, Google put a managed Looker MCP server and Knowledge Catalog integration into preview, announced BigQuery Graph and measures, and previewed an agent that drafts LookML.
Databricks made Unity Catalog metric views generally available as part of Unity Catalog Business Semantics, contributed metric views to Apache Spark, backed the Open Semantic Interchange and made the Genie Conversation API generally available.
Oracle announced a Private Agent Factory with prebuilt agents, per-user data security for agents, answer matching against existing reports and a new Autonomous AI Database MCP server.
At FabCon and SQLCon 2026, Microsoft made Fabric data agents generally available, released the local Fabric MCP server as GA, put a remote MCP server into preview and made Fabric IQ ontologies reachable over MCP in preview.
The Open Semantic Interchange published version 1 of its specification under the Apache 2.0 license, and Databricks joined. Databricks managed MCP servers also reached public preview.
Microsoft announced it is acquiring Osmos, a data engineering platform that uses agents to turn raw data into analytics-ready assets in OneLake. The team joins Fabric engineering.
Anthropic donated MCP to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, and Google put official managed MCP servers for its own services into preview.
The November 2025 MCP revision adds experimental support for long-running tasks, OpenID Connect discovery and finer-grained consent, and sets out formal project governance.
At Ignite 2025, Microsoft put Fabric IQ into public preview, including an ontology item that maps data to business entities, relationships and rules. Data agents can now be exposed as hosted MCP servers.
Google made conversational analytics in Looker generally available, grounded in the LookML model, with multi-Explore questions and an explanation of how each answer was calculated.
Oracle released AI Database 26ai as its long-term support release, with MCP server support, an in-database agent framework and annotations that describe what data means.
Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, RelationalAI and other companies announced the Open Semantic Interchange, an effort to create a vendor-neutral format for semantic definitions.
At FabCon Vienna, Microsoft put a native graph store with GQL queries into public preview, released a developer Fabric MCP and extended data agents to all mirrored databases.
Google contributed the Agent2Agent protocol to a new Linux Foundation project, with AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow among the founding participants.
The June 2025 MCP revision lets tools return typed, structured results, lets a server ask the user for missing input, and tightens how servers handle authorization.
Databricks released managed MCP servers in beta for Genie spaces, Vector Search indexes and Unity Catalog functions, with on-behalf-of-user authentication.
Around Data + AI Summit 2025, Databricks made AI/BI Genie generally available, put Unity Catalog metric views into public preview and launched Agent Bricks in beta.
At Summit 2025, Snowflake made defining semantic views generally available and announced Snowflake Intelligence, a place for business users to ask questions of their data through agents.
At Build 2025, Microsoft announced first-party MCP support across its developer and business products and said Fabric data agents would come to Copilot Studio in the coming weeks.
At Next 25, Google announced the Agent2Agent protocol as a draft open standard and put conversational analytics for Looker and a new API into preview, both grounded in the Looker semantic model.
At FabCon 2025, Microsoft renamed Fabric AI skills to Fabric data agents and put a Fabric knowledge tool for Azure AI Agent Service into public preview, with answers limited to data each user can already access.
The March 2025 revision of the Model Context Protocol adds an OAuth 2.1 based authorization framework, replaces the old SSE transport and lets tools declare whether they only read or can change things.
