{"id":26706,"date":"2026-05-04T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26706\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:29:14","slug":"sap-to-buy-dremio-and-prior-labs-to-lead-agentic-and-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26706\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP To Buy Dremio And Prior Labs To \u2018Lead\u2019 Agentic And AI Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAP unveils plans to acquire Dremio and Prior Labs to take its agentic AI portfolio and Tabular Foundation Models to the next level.<\/p>\n

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SAP<\/a> is elevating its AI strategy with the acquisitions<\/a> of data lakehouse platform provider Dremio and AI foundational model specialist Prior Labs, along with a $1.1 billion investment commitment to scale Prior Labs.<\/p>\n

With the planned purchase of Dremio, SAP Business Data Cloud<\/a> will become an Apache Iceberg-native enterprise lakehouse that unifies SAP and non-SAP data to power agentic AI<\/a> at enterprise scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnterprise AI doesn\u2019t stall because the models aren\u2019t good enough; it stalls because the data isn\u2019t ready for AI agents,\u201d said Philipp Herzig, CTO of SAP SE, in a statement. \u201cDremio eliminates that bottleneck. Combined with SAP Business Data Cloud, we can now take customers from raw, fragmented data to governed, AI-ready intelligence on a single open platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Related: AWS Vs. Google Cloud Vs. Microsoft Azure Q1 Earnings Face-Off<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tabular Foundation Model (TFM) pioneer Prior Labs looks to boost SAP\u2019s success in AI foundation models along with SAP\u2019s commitment to invest more than $1.1 billion to scale Prior Labs globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe built SAP-RPT-1 to prove that conviction for enterprise data,\u201d Herzig said. \u201cPrior Labs has built a leading TFM on public benchmarks and built one of the leading research teams in this category. Combining their frontier model work with enterprise data and customer reach is how we intend to lead this category globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Financial terms of both deals were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Both deals are expected to close by the third quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

Why Is SAP Acquiring Dremio?<\/p>\n

Dremio<\/a> provides an open data lakehouse platform built to accelerate agentic AI and expand SAP Business Data Cloud\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n

Dremio\u2019s Agentic Lakehouse is dubbed as the only Iceberg-native data platform built for agents and managed by agents.<\/p>\n

By acquiring Dremio, SAP will boost its Business Data Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud offerings to ensure seamless data integration across SAP and non-SAP data with high performance and low cost to accelerate AI-ready context and time-to-value for AI.<\/p>\n

The Dremio lakehouse platform is serverless and elastic, scaling up automatically when demand spikes and scaling back down when it subsides\u2014meaning no fixed capacity to provision and no performance ceiling when it matters most.<\/p>\n

SAP Business Data Cloud will natively support Apache Iceberg as its foundation.<\/p>\n

In addition, Dremio and SAP will provide a universal, open catalog built on Apache Polaris and the open Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API.<\/p>\n

Why Is SAP Buying Prior Labs? $1.1 Billion Investment Ahead<\/p>\n

SAP said Prior Labs will remain an independent company, with SAP pledging more than $1.1 billion over the next four years to scale the startup into a global frontier AI lab focused on enterprise structured data.<\/p>\n

SAP aims to establish an industry-leading AI research lab and shape a new category in TFMs.<\/p>\n

With over 3 million downloads, Prior Labs\u2019 TabPFN is a widely adopted open-source tool for tabular AI.<\/p>\n

SAP said large language models (LLMs) struggle to make accurate predictions on structured business data because they have only a rudimentary understanding of tables, numbers and statistics.<\/p>\n

Unlike LLMs, Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) are purpose-built for structured data, enabling more accurate predictions of business outcomes such as payment delays, supplier risk, upsell opportunities and customer churn.<\/p>\n

After the deal finalizes, SAP and Prior Labs plan to turn its top AI research into enterprise-ready innovation, allowing customers to get even more value out of their tabular business data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAP unveils plans to acquire Dremio and Prior Labs to take its agentic AI portfolio and Tabular Foundation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,24,405,408,25,410,223,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-26706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-agentic-ai","9":"tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-ai-agents","12":"tag-ai-applications","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-business-intelligence-and-analytics","15":"tag-generative-ai","16":"tag-llm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}