Microsoft says Flint-interactive can make AI-generated charts interactive
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Microsoft presented Flint-interactive, a language built on Flint for creating dashboards, data stories and other interactive visualizations. The company says users and agents can define behaviors with high-level semantic events and update operators, enabling them to click, filter, zoom and highlight data while connecting charts, text, tables and applications. A selection in one view can also update another, such as a document or an application’s state.
Microsoft says Flint’s compiler resolves dependencies between interaction and visual logic, reducing development effort, generation costs and layout or rendering failures. The company presented the work at SOSP 2026, a conference focused on computer systems software.
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The proposal could reduce the work needed to turn AI-generated visualizations into connected, interactive experiences, although the described benefits are Microsoft’s claims. For developers, the approach also brings dashboards, documents and applications closer together within the same interaction flow.
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