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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.
2026/08/28 - 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.
2026/08/01 - Alex Monahan, Jacob Matson
Since OpenAI slashed the price of GPT 5.6 Luna by 80% this week, low latency AI-powered answers are finally feasible for less than half a penny per answer, AI and DB costs included. For data questions, GPT 5.6 Luna is intelligence too cheap to meter. Well documented context, rigorous evals, and a fast analytical engine are now the determining factors.
2026/07/31 - Simon Späti
Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Airflow and Superset, shares how he uses AI agents for data engineering: orchestrating agents on a shared canvas with Agor, context layers and semantics, Okta for Agents security, and automating CEO work with AI assistants.
2026/07/29 - Garrett O'Brien, Hamilton Ulmer, Till Döhmen, Jacob Matson
Introducing Guides, MotherDuck's context layer for AI agents. More accurate queries, lower token spend, and distributed context for your entire organization.
2026/07/20 - Ryan Boyd
Data Outpost is a new conference for data and AI builders, coming to San Francisco November 4-5, 2026. The next evolution of Small Data SF: two days of workshops, talks, and real time with the people building the data layer AI depends on.
2026/07/16 - Alex Monahan
Waiting in line is no fun! While standing in line at Disney World, a developer dad built a custom data app to pick the perfect next ride. It combines live APIs, historical wait times, and weather data into personal software with MotherDuck's MCP, Dives, and Flights.
2026/07/15 - Simon Späti
July's DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: a portable R2 + DuckLake analytics stack, why PostHog rebuilt on DuckDB over ClickHouse, DuckCon #7 and the 1.5.4 / 1.4.5 releases, a SedonaDB WASM build for spatial SQL in the browser, and more.