Comment by jhickok
7 days ago
“With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.”
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent...
I don't understand how this acquisition is relevant for AI.
Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.
Always Increasing
Event-driven AI decision making is the C-suite wet dream. A large % of major orgs run Kafka for their eventing systems.
So the idea is sorta watching the wire of streaming data with autonomous agents or something like that?
Exactly. An agent may be acting on the contents of individual events, but also spotting trends and patterns in events, and intervening where needed/instructed.
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not for much longer
As I read the release, it just sounded like "something something something data, something something something AI."
AI is just the lastest buzzword. Everyone has it, because they have to. Don't look behind the curtain.
Anything today has to contain the word "AI" otherwise it simply won't be considered.
Streaming, EDA can solve lot of data challenges for enterprise AI use cases
It's depressing how IBM always uses the same language with every single acquisition. They don't care about the actual tech, only the patents and the ability to resell it.
You can double your company's value by saying it's an AI company. Easiest, simplest way to create value.
Everything in IT is AI now. We should just change the industry initialism to AIT.
They probably have cursor licenses
AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group
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