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2026/09/21 - Hamilton Ulmer, Till Döhmen, Jacob Matson
Classify text in SQL with prompt_jev(), powered by TypeSafe's Jev. 100,000 rows labeled in 40 seconds for $0.50 at frontier-LLM accuracy. Live on paid plans.
2026/09/21 - Alex Monahan
Define your dashboards in YAML with dbt Charts, then the same dbt build that runs your pipeline deploys them to MotherDuck Dives. Just 2 config changes! Your Dives will refresh live whenever your stakeholders take a look. See how we constructed the dbt package as well.
2026/09/16 - Simon Späti
The September 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: DuckLabs joins AWS and MotherDuck acquires Tower, DuckDB v2.0-alpha lands, table functions in pure Java, bulk loads into SQL Server, Zarr stores as SQL tables, an infinite canvas for your data, plus a community spotlight on Vladimir Gribanov.
2026/09/16 - Simon Späti
The September 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: DuckLabs joins AWS and MotherDuck acquires Tower, DuckDB v2.0-alpha lands, table functions in pure Java, bulk loads into SQL Server, Zarr stores as SQL tables, an infinite canvas for your data, plus a community spotlight on Vladimir Gribanov.
2026/09/15 - Dumky de Wilde
SQLite, Postgres, DuckDB and 20 others: they all write, store and read data. The questions you ask every day tell you which one you need.
2026/09/14 - Kaitlyn Henry
We're launching commercial support for open-source DuckDB, so every organization can get the power of a modern data engine, with direct access to database experts.
2026/09/10 - Mehdi Ouazza
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup.
2026/09/02 - Simon Späti
A primer on the context layer, semantic layer, and ontology: what each term means, how they fit together, and why AI agents still need a human to decide what's true.
2026/09/02 - Alex Monahan
We analyzed a slice of MotherDuck query history and found agents ran 29 times more queries than humans last month, a gap that has roughly doubled every month. The average organization now has twice as many agents as human users. Agents are the dominant consumers of the data platform, and our systems can't afford to stay the same.
2026/08/28 - Alex Monahan
If your laptop has 16GB of RAM, your agent can write SQL locally for free with Qwen3.8 27B. On the DABstep SQL benchmark, Qwen beat GPT 5.6 Luna and cost under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less. Add DuckDB and you have a data analyst that runs on your own machine. This post covers the benchmark results and walks through the setup, including which quantized model to download for your laptop.
2026/08/27 - Mehdi Ouazza, MotherDuck team
Meet the MotherDuck CLI: one install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from your terminal, for coding agents and CI alike.
2026/08/26 - Jordan Tigani
Today Duck Labs, the developers of DuckDB, announced they are being acquired by Amazon. This is big news in the duck-iverse, and many people are wondering what this will mean for everyone’s favorite duck-powered database, MotherDuck.
2026/08/25 - Jordan Tigani
2026/08/20 - Jacob Matson, Alex Monahan
We proved that AI agents could build a semantic layer. The more interesting result was that the semantic layer itself became disposable. Q&A pairs are unreasonably effective at capturing business intent and give agents something concrete to iterate with. If code can be regenerated, where should your company accrue knowledge?
2026/08/18 - Alex Monahan
AI agents make building data apps easy, but what about deploying them or making sure they scale? Replit provides a way for just about anyone to build real applications, and MotherDuck is the easiest way to help them scale to larger data sizes. Load data with MotherDuck Flights and you can query millions to billions of rows on the fly!
2026/08/13 - Alex Monahan
Use an agent to build data apps with the combo of Vercel V0 and MotherDuck! V0 makes prototyping and deployment easy, while MotherDuck Flights provide seamless data ingestion and MotherDuck handles up to billions of rows. Your agent can even sign up for MotherDuck for you! See a full example app and the prompt that kickstarted it!
2026/08/13 - Simon Späti
The August 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: giving every agent its own embedded DuckDB, the ADBC extension reaching 30+ external databases, async I/O landing in v2.0, ISO GQL graph queries, Perspective 5.0 pushdown, plus a community spotlight on Kyle Cheung.
2026/08/10 - Adithya Krishnan, Sheila Sitaram, Garrett O'Brien
AI agents can now sign up for MotherDuck with a single API call - no forms, no credentials, no human in the loop (unless you want to be, of course). Experiment faster, share data, or just give your agents a ducking fast set of tools for analytics.
2026/08/04 - Mehdi Ouazza
AI agents can now provision a Postgres database, an email inbox or a data warehouse with no signup and no credit card. Here is how MotherDuck's agent signup endpoint works, and how motherduck.com/try lets you inspect, share and replay everything the agent did.