IT Home On October 24, a tech media outlet axios posted a blog post yesterday (October 23) stating that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms has acquired the AI data analysis platform Sundial, which was founded by two former Meta employees.
It is worth noting that both co-founders of Sundial are experienced former employees of Meta (formerly Facebook): CEO Julie Zhuo was the vice president of product design at Meta, and Chandra Narayanan served as the data analysis director for Instagram and Sequoia Capital.
The core capability of the sundial is enabling enterprises to use chatbot plugins to ask complex data-related questions in natural language, and quickly obtain actionable analysis results. For business teams, there is no need to wait long periods for support from a centralized data department; they can obtain data insights on their own, thereby accelerating product iteration, operational decisions, and AI system monitoring.
Meta has been continuously investing in data and AI infrastructure in recent years. In July this year, the company appointed former marketing head Alex Schultz as its first Chief Data Officer, and established a new department called “Data Analytics Tooling & Agents” (DATA) to handle descriptive analysis, experimental testing, AI product improvement, and monitoring of key AI systems.
Schultz said that after Sundial was merged, Narayanan will be responsible for data analysis tools and AI agents. He said on LinkedIn: “AI actually brings almost unlimited insight needs, and we want to define the future of AI analysis.” IT Home has attached the relevant screenshots as follows: