Pharma’s Data Fabric Was Always for Humans. AstraZeneca Just Defined What It Looks Like for AI Agents.
There's a shift in how big pharma talks about AI happening this month, and it hasn't fully registered yet. AstraZeneca's R&D and Enterprise AI leadership just published the clearest articulation yet of what AI-era R&D requires as foundational infrastructure, and what a data fabric needs to be when the primary consumer is no longer a human analyst but an AI agent. Genestack Founder and CEO Misha Kapushesky on what the paper gets right, where the implementation is harder than it sounds, and why the semantic layer above the data platform is the work of the next two years.