# Microsoft Research — Flint: A visualization language for the AI era

- Company: Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-08T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research / Phi
- License: open-source
- Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/flint-a-visualization-language-for-the-ai-era/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2460-flint-a-visualization-language-for-the-ai-era

Microsoft Research introduces Flint, a visualization intermediate language for AI-driven chart creation that compiles simple, human-editable specifications into polished charts across multiple backends (Vega-Lite, Apache ECharts, Chart.js).

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/flint-a-visualization-language-for-the-ai-era/:

> To address this challenge, we introduce Flint, a visualization intermediate language for AI-driven chart creation.

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