Enterprise data intelligence platform Alation has acquired Numbers Station, a startup focused on AI-native data applications, to enhance its offerings with AI agents that operate on structured data. The integration aims to swiftly connect their systems, leveraging Numbers Station's capabilities to create a translation layer between large language models (LLMs) and enterprise data. CEO Satyen Sangani emphasized the need for robust AI tools that mitigate LLM hallucinations, enhancing their enterprise applicability. This acquisition follows Alation's recent developments in AI agents for data quality and documentation, aimed at driving automation efficiency.
One of the things that gave us a lot of confidence is the [companies] are architected in such a fundamentally complementary way that we could get the integration done really fast.
The ability to basically make LLMs have the ability to talk to the core databases that fuel and run the enterprise, we think is basically the problem to solve to make LLMs scale inside of the enterprise.
Data and knowledge consumption is increasingly happening through large language models, but the fact that LLMs are prone to hallucinate means that enterprises haven't yet been able to meaningfully adopt AI data tools.
Acquiring a company like Numbers Station allows Alation to offer workflow automations faster.
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