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Aug 7, 2026 · Big Data

Can a Single AI‑Native Lakehouse Format Power Multimodal Data, Retrieval and Agent Memory?

At AICon 2026, Ma Jin explained how Lance’s layered lakehouse format—spanning file, table, index and catalog layers—addresses AI workloads by supporting wide columns, cheap schema evolution, mixed storage and low‑latency random reads, enabling unified handling of training data, RAG retrieval and Agent memory.