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MotherDuck Agent Skills: Teaching Your AI Agents to Do Analytics
MotherDuck announced Agent Skills, an open-source catalog that helps AI coding agents connect to MotherDuck, explore schemas, and write DuckDB SQL queries. The catalog is designed to give AI agents the context needed for analytics tasks.
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Announcing DuckLake 1.0 on MotherDuck
MotherDuck announced preview support for DuckLake 1.0 in its managed DuckLake databases. The post explains DuckLake 1.0’s stable specification and new lakehouse capabilities, including data inlining, clustering, bucket partitioning, geometry and variant types, and multi-engine support.
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MotherDuck Adds PostgreSQL Wire Protocol Support for Analytics
MotherDuck now speaks PostgreSQL protocol, enabling any Postgres-compatible client to query its OLAP database without installing DuckDB libraries. This removes a major adoption barrier for teams running Postgres.
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MCP vs Skills: The Future of Data AI Tool Integration
This article presents an in-depth conversation with Jacob Matson (DevRel at MotherDuck) and Thierry Jean (Senior AI Engineer at dltHub) discussing the future of Model Context Protocol (MCP) versus Skills in AI development, with a focus on MotherDuck's Dives tool for conversational analytics.
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DuckDB 1.5 is Faster and Easier than Ever
This article details the new features and performance improvements in DuckDB 1.5, including faster min/max queries, more efficient complex joins, and significant speedups for Top N by Group operations. It highlights how these enhancements make DuckDB more powerful and easier to use.
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Duck, Dive, and Answer | MotherDuck Blog
This article introduces "Dives," a new MotherDuck feature that allows AI agents to build interactive, real-time data visualizations using composable SQL. It emphasizes how Dives enable LLMs to create live, up-to-date visualizations that can be shared and published within MotherDuck.
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MotherDuck is Landing in Europe! Announcing our EU Region
MotherDuck announced the private preview of its first European cloud region, aiming to provide fast, serverless analytics to European customers. This expansion ensures data residency and offers sub-second query performance for businesses in the EU, marking a significant step in its global reach.
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Data Warehousing with DuckDB at Scale
MotherDuck announced the general availability of its data warehousing solution with DuckDB. This release includes the official launch of the MotherDuck connector for Power BI and its acceptance into the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, signifying a major product milestone.
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Database startup MotherDuck lands $52.5M to grow its DuckDB-based platform
MotherDuck, a database startup, secured $52.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Felicis. This investment will fuel the growth of its DuckDB-based platform, which provides a serverless, easy-to-use data analytics solution. The funding highlights investor confidence in MotherDuck''s approach to data warehousing.
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