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Guowei Ma reassigned FLINK-39807:
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Assignee: Guowei Ma
> [umbrella] FLIP-577: AI-Native Flink — Umbrella for Multimodal Data Processing
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> Key: FLINK-39807
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39807
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Guowei Ma
> Assignee: Guowei Ma
> Priority: Major
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> This is the umbrella issue tracking FLIP-577: AI-Native Flink — An Umbrella
> Proposal for Multimodal Data Processing.
> _FLIP:_
> [FLIP-577|[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=421957275]]
> _Discussion thread:_ [dev@
> thread|[https://lists.apache.org/thread/l5obwo4kvjblqnx24btsv4rwjwoflb6d]]
> User workloads are shifting from BI analytics to multimodal data processing
> centered on model inference — data expands from structured records to
> images/video/audio/embeddings, resources move from CPU to mixed CPU/GPU, and
> execution moves from row-oriented to vectorized batch. This umbrella proposes
> evolving Flink from a unified stream-batch compute engine into one that
> natively supports AI workloads (AI-Native), decomposed into 11 sub-FLIPs
> across three layers:
> * _Layer 1 — Core Runtime Primitives:_ RpcOperator; multimodal type system
> and OBJECT_REF.
> * _Layer 2 — Workload Expression and Execution:_ Python DataFrame API;
> multimodal Source/Sink connector API; GPU resource declaration and
> independent deployment; built-in multimodal operators and AI functions; Arrow
> columnar transport.
> * _Layer 3 — Production-Grade Operational Guarantees:_ non-disruptive
> scaling for CPU and GPU operators; Unaligned Checkpoint enhancements;
> Pipeline-Region-based independent checkpoints.
> Most sub-FLIPs have no hard dependencies and can be advanced in parallel.
> This umbrella seeks consensus on the overall direction only; detailed design
> and APIs are deferred to each sub-FLIP. All changes are incremental.
> Sub-FLIPs will be tracked as separate issues and linked here.
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