SAS, a global leader in data and AI, today announced expansions to SAS® Viya® that advance the platform’s agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools. Together, these updates build on SAS Viya’s existing AI foundation, helping organizations
AI Assistants
AI assistants like ChatGPT have rapidly become trusted environments for handling some of the most sensitive data people own. Users discuss medical symptoms, upload financial records, analyze contracts, and paste internal documents—often assuming that what they share remains safely contained within the platform. That assumption was briefly challenged when new research











