Confluent announced new capabilities in Confluent Intelligence and Confluent Cloud aimed at simplifying and securing real-time AI application development. Key additions include a fully managed MCP server for natural language streaming operations, automated PII detection and redaction in Flink SQL, Azure Private Link support for secure connectivity to external AI models, a free open-source dbt adapter for Flink SQL pipelines, and expanded model support including Anthropic, Fireworks AI, and TimesFM. These features target the common failure point where data security and fragmentation prevent AI projects from reaching production.
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