Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She)

In this episode, Tristan Handy sits down with Chang She — a co-creator of Pandas and now CEO of LanceDB — to explore the convergence of analytics and AI engineering. The team at LanceDB is rebuilding the data lake from the ground up with AI as a first principle, starting with a new AI-native file format called Lance. Tristan traces Chang's journey as one of the original contributors to the pandas library to building a new infrastructure layer for AI-native data. Learn why vector databases alone aren't enough, why agents require new architecture, and how LanceDB is building a AI lakehouse for the future. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She) is an episode from The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc..

This episode is 56:58 long.

This episode was published on Nov 23, 2025.

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