Confluent Makes it Easier to Build and Secure Real-Time AI at Scale

▤ Summary

Confluent announced new capabilities in Confluent Intelligence and Confluent Cloud to simplify building and securing real-time AI applications. It integrates Apache Flink pipelines with dbt, introduces a fully managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and Agent Skills, and delivers automated PII detection and redaction in Flink SQL. The update adds private connectivity to external models via Azure Private Link and expands model and vector-database support (including Anthropic, Fireworks, TimesFM, and DynamoDB vector search). Confluent also highlighted the general availability of the Real-Time Context Engine and new managed connectors to streamline secure, production-ready streaming AI workflows.

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Confluent

$1M to $5M