TDLR: Databricks’ new FILE type brings unstructured assets (multimodal data) ((video, audio, etc)) into the Lakehouse with the ease that we expect in this chaotic and agentic age we find ourselves in. I’ve been thinking more and more about multimodal data ever since Tyler brought it to my attention early on. On top of that, finding myself doing more and more unstructured data things these days tends to change how one thinks, such as building agentic solutions at the $day_job. One has to imagine that this type of data will only increase in popularity and, in fact, become more of a requirement for many data engineers in the future. By “this”, I mean munging unstructured or untraditional data into the Lakehouse that was once ruled by tabular data.