🎉 Huge congrats to Apache Fluss on graduating as an Apache Top-Level Project! 🚀 Born inside Alibaba Cloud’s Flink team to power real-time analytics & AI with a streaming-native storage layer, Fluss was open-sourced because this challenge is universal—and the solution should be too. Already running in production at Alibaba, Xiaohongshu, Ant Group, Fresha, and iQiyi—handling hundreds of billions of events at peak! Fluss + Flink power Alibaba Cloud OpenLake’s real-time Lakehouse—unifying fresh and historical data in one table with a shared catalog and multi-engine support for users and AI agents. Read the blog to learn more: #ApacheFluss# #Flink# #RealTimeData# #Lakehouse# #OpenSource# #AlibabaCloud# #Streaming# #AI#

At Flink Forward Asia Shenzhen 2026, Feng Wang, Researcher and Head of Open Data Platform at Alibaba Cloud & Vice Chair of the Alibaba Open Source Committee, highlighted the evolving data foundation for AI: "In the AI era, models and data together determine the quality and efficiency of Agents. Apache Flink evolves into Agentic Streaming for AI, working alongside Agentic Lake to build AI-native data platform." The next generation of intelligent agents is built on a unified, AI-native data infrastructure designed for real-time agentic workflows. #AlibabaCloud# #ApacheFlink# #ApachePaimon# #ApacheFluss# #DataAI# #AI# #Agent# #RealTimeData#

At Flink Forward Asia Shenzhen 2026, Feifei Li, CTO of Alibaba Cloud and President of International Business, shared his perspective on the future of AI: "As the agent era takes off, one concept will dominate—Data Gravity. AI must tackle complex work and, more importantly, create tangible value in real enterprise workflows." AI isn't just about smarter models—it's about solving complex enterprise challenges and delivering real business value. #AlibabaCloud# #ApacheFlink# #ApachePaimon# #ApacheFluss# #DataAI# #AI# #Agent# #RealTimeData#

⏳ 1 Day to Go! Flink Forward Asia 2026 — Main Forum Agenda Revealed! FFA2026 brings together world-class tech leaders to showcase the full picture of real-time data intelligence — from Alibaba Cloud's Agent-native to AI-native evolution, and from automotive to embodied AI industry scenarios. 📅 June 26–27 | InterContinental Shenzhen OCT, Shenzhen ⚡ Limited seats available — don't miss out! 📝 Note: All sessions will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese. #FlinkForwardAsia# #FFA2026# #ApacheFlink# #RealTimeData# #DataAI# #AIAgent# #AgenticAI# #StreamingData# #OpenSource# #AlibabaCloud# #EmbodiedAI# #DataEngineering#

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