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Branching and Shallow Cloning in Lance: Towards a "Git for AI Data"

Jack Ye
February 16, 2026
A deep dive into how table formats handle version management for ML/AI experimentation, and how Lance unifies branching, tagging, and shallow clone on top of its multi-base architecture.
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🦆 Lance x DuckDB SQL Retrieval, 🚗 Uber-Scale Storage, ⚡ 1.5M IOPS

ChanChan Mao
February 9, 2026
Kicking off 2026 with Lance-native SQL retrieval via DuckDB, Uber-scale multi-bucket storage, 1.5M IOPS benchmarks, and continued OSS momentum across the Lance ecosystem.
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Lance × Hugging Face: A New Era of Sharing Multimodal Data on the Hub

Prashanth Rao
Quentin Lhoest
Xuanwo
Ayush Chaurasia
February 2, 2026
Announcing native read support for Lance format on Hugging Face Hub. You can now distribute your large multimodal datasets as a single, searchable artifact (including blobs, embeddings and indexes) all in one place!
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The Quest for One Million IOPS: Benchmarking Storage at LanceDB

Weston Pace
January 29, 2026
Learn how LanceDB benchmarks storage and how we achieved one million disk reads per second.
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Rethinking Table File Paths with Uber: Lance’s Multi-Base Layout

Jack Ye
January 20, 2026
A tour of Lance's file path design, and how Lance’s new multi-base layout enables multi-location datasets (such as Uber’s multi-bucket setup) with minimal metadata rewrites.
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Keep Your Data Fresh with CocoIndex and LanceDB

Prashanth Rao
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January 15, 2026
Store a multimodal dataset of recipes in LanceDB, a multimodal lakehouse for AI, and keep it fresh with CocoIndex, a declarative data transformation framework for AI with incremental processing capabilities.
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Lance × DuckDB: SQL for Retrieval on the Multimodal Lakehouse Format

Xuanwo
January 12, 2026
Use the Lance format as your lakehouse layer for retrieval, RAG and more, with the native Lance extension for DuckDB
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💾 Lance SDK v1.0.0, 🗓️ 1st Lance Community Sync, 🔍 Wikisearch

ChanChan Mao
January 6, 2026
Our December newsletter highlights Lance SDK v1.0.0, our upcoming Lance community sync, Wikisearch demo, and the latest product and community updates.
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One System, Many Workloads: Rethinking What "Multimodal" Means for AI

Prashanth Rao
January 5, 2026
A practical definition of multimodal complexity, and how LanceDB’s Multimodal Lakehouse is built to address these challenges.
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Announcing Lance SDK 1.0.0: What This Milestone Means for the Community

Weston Pace
December 15, 2025
We’re excited to announce that the core Rust SDK and the Python and Java binding SDKs are graduating to version 1.0.0, alongside a new, community-driven release strategy.
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🛡️Lance Community Governance, Lance + Iceberg 🧊, Netflix’s Multimodal Search Demo 🔍

ChanChan Mao
December 4, 2025
Our November newsletter highlights Lance community governance, a deep dive on Lance and Iceberg, a demo of Netflix's multimodal search, previous talk recordings, and the latest product and community updates.
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RAG Isn't One-Size-Fits-All: Here's How to Tune It for Your Use Case

Leonard Marcq
December 1, 2025
Great RAG comes from a tight iteration loop. Learn how to systematically improve each layer of your RAG system using Kiln and LanceDB.
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