Data Streaming

AI’s 2026 bottleneck will not be the model. It will be the data layer.

Confluent’s 2026 Predictions Report makes a sharp argument about the next phase of enterprise AI: the model race is no longer the whole story. After a year where agentic AI dominated data conversations, Confluent says 2026 will be about solving the barriers that made AI hard to move into production. The report opens with a […]