# Multimodal AI | Data Brew | Episode 42

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Podcast: [Data Brew by Databricks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-brew-by-databricks)
Published: 2025-04-07T15:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2534

## Resource

In this episode, Chang She, CEO and Co-founder of LanceDB, discusses the challenges of handling multimodal data and how LanceDB provides a cutting-edge solution. He shares his journey from contributing to Pandas to building a database optimized for images, video, vectors, and subtitles. Highlights include: - The limitations of traditional storage systems like Parquet for multimodal AI. - How LanceDB enables efficient querying and processing of diverse data types. - The growing importance of ...

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