
Tables Turned: Why LLM-Based Table Agents Are the Next Big Leap in Business AI
When most people think of AI today, they picture text generation, image synthesis, or copilots answering emails. But beneath the surface of digital transformation lies an often-overlooked backbone of enterprise work: tables. Spreadsheets, databases, and semi-structured tabular documents are still where critical operations happen — from finance to health records to logistics. A recent survey paper, Toward Real-World Table Agents, pushes us to rethink how AI interacts with tabular data. Instead of treating tables as static inputs, the authors argue that tables are evolving into active data canvases — and LLM-based Table Agents are poised to become their intelligent orchestrators. ...