When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we at TiDB contend that this framing misses the most consequential change now underway in this sector.
In the AI era, data infrastructure — not AI models — will define the new competitive advantage. This parallels the development of databases themselves, which are undergoing their own fundamental transformation.
That belief is shaping the evolution of TiDB, our distributed open-source SQL…
