Agentic SQL for Free with Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB
If your laptop has 16GB of RAM, your agent can write SQL locally for free with Qwen3.8 27B. On the DABstep SQL benchmark, Qwen beat GPT 5.6 Luna and cost under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less.
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If your laptop has 16GB of RAM, your agent can write SQL locally for free with Qwen3.8 27B. On the DABstep SQL benchmark, Qwen beat GPT 5.6 Luna and cost under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less.
Meet the MotherDuck CLI: one install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from your terminal, for coding agents and CI alike.
Today Duck Labs, the developers of DuckDB, announced they are being acquired by Amazon. This is big news in the duck-iverse, and many people are wondering what this will mean for everyone’s favorite duck-powered database, MotherDuck.
I’m excited to announce that MotherDuck has acquired Tower Computing Inc. Tower provides runtime infrastructure for data engineering tasks, and is ideally situated to help AI agents and vibe-coded pipelines run data engineering tasks.
We proved that AI agents could build a semantic layer. The more interesting result was that the semantic layer itself became disposable.
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