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DuckDB-related project that lets one DuckDB process serve databases over a network, targeted for stabilization in DuckDB v2.0.
Meta has open-sourced an MXFP8 forward and backward pass for FlashAttention-4 that it already runs in production ads training. The reported 1.6x forward gain over BF16 sits well under the 2-4x the block-scaled MMA instruction advertises.
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DuckLabs keeps its Amsterdam desks and the MIT license still holds. The change is who pays for the roadmap, and what that does to a database compiled into your product.
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AWS says the DuckDB projects stay free and open under an independent foundation. The people who write them join AWS by early September, on terms nobody disclosed.
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The MIT-licensed projects stay with the DuckDB Foundation, but the more than 30 people who write them would sit on AWS's payroll. No reporting line has been published.
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The creators of the embedded analytics engine are adding the client-server layer their original design deliberately left out. Treat v2.0 as a provisioning decision, not an upgrade.
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