Oct 16, 2026 · MotherDuck team
prompt_jev() now works on images
prompt_jev() now takes images: store them as BLOBs in MotherDuck, ask closed questions in SQL, and get typed answers with a confidence score you can join with the rest of your data.
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Oct 15, 2026 · Jacob Matson
MotherDuck is coming to Azure
MotherDuck is coming to Azure. Pick your region on the waitlist; regions open in order of demand. Your Copilot agents can connect to MotherDuck today.
Oct 15, 2026 · Kaitlyn Henry
A Chief of Staff's Guide to Context Layers
Kaitlyn, MotherDuck’s Chief of Staff, on why self-serve analytics with AI agents fragments your metrics, and how non-technical leaders can get everyone on one definition of metrics.
Oct 15, 2026 · Kaitlyn Henry
A Chief of Staff's Guide to Context Layers
Kaitlyn, MotherDuck’s Chief of Staff, on why self-serve analytics with AI agents fragments your metrics, and how non-technical leaders can get everyone on one definition of metrics.
Oct 9, 2026 · Simon Späti
Data Engineering Is the Cache Invalidation Problem ft. Josh Wills
Josh Wills, creator of dbt-duckdb and former head of data engineering at Slack, on why the model barely matters, why agents still write ugly and expensive data pipelines, and why data engineering is still the cache invalidation problem.
Oct 6, 2026 · Mehdi Ouazza
5 Jev use cases for analytics, with real queries and datasets
Five prompt_jev() use cases on real data, with SQL you can rerun: AI agent traces, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, cloud job postings and a regex replacement.
Oct 5, 2026 · Alex Monahan
Build It Yourself: What You'll Make at the Data Outpost Workshops
Data Outpost kicks off on November 4, 2026 in San Francisco with 11 hands-on workshops from MotherDuck, Vercel, Sigma, Prefect, Estuary, Airbyte, Reducto, Braintrust, and Together AI. Here's what you'll build in each one: your own agents, the data pipelines they need, and the skills to run them in production.
Oct 1, 2026 · Alex Monahan
AI Needs Data, Data Needs AI: What You'll Learn at Data Outpost
Data Outpost is an AI and data conference in San Francisco. Its main day, November 5, 2026, has 13 talks and panels from teams at Canva, Stripe, DoorDash, Posit, dbt and more. Here's what each session covers, from agents that write back to context layers, SQL harnesses, and AI for regulated data, and what you'll walk away with.
Sep 29, 2026 · Mehdi Ouazza
Jev for analytics: turn text columns into gold, in plain SQL
Turn a free-text column into typed SQL columns with prompt_jev(): 100,000 consumer complaints classified in 82 seconds, at about 1% of a frontier LLM's cost, plus how to check the labels before you trust them.
Sep 22, 2026 · Dumky de Wilde
Querying the entire internet with MotherDuck
Common Crawl publishes petabytes of web crawl data on S3. With DuckDB and MotherDuck you can query the Common Crawl dataset directly, no cluster and no download, and measure how fast the vibe-coded web is growing.
Sep 21, 2026 · Alex Monahan
dbt Charts on MotherDuck: Declarative Dashboards
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.
Sep 21, 2026 · Hamilton Ulmer, Till Döhmen, Jacob Matson
Introducing prompt_jev(): bringing Jev to Motherduck SQL
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.
Sep 16, 2026 · Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026
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.
Sep 15, 2026 · Dumky de Wilde
Database 101: when to choose which database
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.
Sep 14, 2026 · Kaitlyn Henry
Your DuckDB Flock Deserves A Mother: MotherDuck Now Offers Open Source DuckDB Support
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.
Sep 10, 2026 · Mehdi Ouazza
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
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.
Sep 2, 2026 · Simon Späti
Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era
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.
Sep 2, 2026 · Alex Monahan
Agents Don’t Query Like Humans Do
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.
Aug 28, 2026 · Alex Monahan
Agentic SQL for Free with Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB
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.