Data Brew by Databricks
Welcome to Data Brew by Databricks with Denny and Brooke! In this series, we explore various topics in the data and AI community and interview subject matter experts in data engineering/data science. So join us with your morning brew in hand and get ready to dive deep into data + AI! For this first season, we will be focusing on lakehouses – combining the key features of data warehouses, such as ACID transactions, with the scalability of data lakes, directly against low-cost object stores.
Data Brew by Databricks
Multimodal AI | Data Brew | Episode 42
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Databricks
In this episode, Chang She, CEO and Co-founder of LanceDB, discusses the challenges of handling multimodal data and how LanceDB provides a cutting-edge solution. He shares his journey from contributing to Pandas to building a database optimized for images, video, vectors, and subtitles.
Highlights include:
- The limitations of traditional storage systems like Parquet for multimodal AI.
- How LanceDB enables efficient querying and processing of diverse data types.
- The growing importance of multimodal AI in enterprise applications.
- Future trends in AI, including a shift from single models to holistic AI systems.
- Predictions and "spicy takes" on AI advancements in 2025.
