Core Insights - Alibaba Cloud's PolarDB has launched a series of new product capabilities at the 2026 PolarDB Developer Conference, including AI Data Lake Database (Lakebase), model operator services, and managed capabilities for Agent application development [1] Group 1: Product Launch - The new capabilities introduced by PolarDB include multi-modal AI data lake databases, efficient integrated search capabilities, model operator services, and backend services for Agent application development [1] - PolarDB has clarified its four core pillars of "AI-ready database" [1] Group 2: User and Deployment Metrics - The user base of Alibaba Cloud's PolarDB has exceeded 20,000, with a deployment scale of over 3 million cores [1] - The service covers 86 available zones globally [1]