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The Missing Third Leg of Every Agentic AI Stack

Every architecture diagram I see draws the same three boxes. Sometimes it’s Model + RAG + MCP . Sometimes it’s Model + MCP + Tools. The labels move around, but the shape never changes. The…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Inside a Real Benchmark: Measuring the Cost of AI on the Warehouse

Any AI performance conversation runs the same three tracks: token costs, inference latency, and model accuracy, and all three numbers matter. But once an AI system reaches enterprise data, a fourth system starts determining both…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Five Questions Every CDO Should Ask About AI and Semantics

The metrics powering your AI agents right now, like margin per square foot or total economic cost, probably don’t belong to you. They belong to whichever platform computes them today. Snowflake, Databricks, the frontier LLM…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Don’t Let Microsoft Be Your Warden

Microsoft just made the case for AtScale by playing Warden Norton, the prison boss from “The Shawshank Redemption.” On Tuesday, Sara Vredevoogd from Microsoft’s Power BI team announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot can now query…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

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Why I Joined AtScale: The Semantic Layer Inflection Point

Over four and a half years at Snowflake, I watched enterprises run into a problem that’s about to get much worse: every major platform has built its own semantic layer , and none of them…

Posted By: Mike Wandey

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A Skill or README Isn't a Semantic Layer

Why not just give the agent a skill? A bunch of people asked this at this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit . Write down what “revenue” means, drop the skill next to your data,…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

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How Anthropic's AI Accuracy Went from 21% to 95%

Anthropic’s data science and engineering team runs its internal analytics on Claude, and this week, they published the accuracy figures . Without a semantic layer , the answers were right 21% of the time. With…

Posted By: Dave Mariani