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Flint-Interactive: A Language for Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Microsoft, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026

Microsoft Research introduces Flint-interactive, letting AI agents build charts users can click, filter and zoom.

Microsoft Research introduces Flint-interactive, a language that lets AI agents create data visualizations users can explore by clicking, filtering, zooming and highlighting.

Instead of low-level visualization code, users and agents define behavior with high-level semantic events and update operators.

Flint's compiler handles interaction logic and visual dependencies, which Microsoft says reduces layout and debugging problems.

The tool supports dashboards and data stories and can be used in chat through Flint-MCP and MCP Apps.

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