What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Are there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for?

When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn't have answers to those questions. All he wanted to do was find a way to access data using a text interface, and Slack seemed like a good place to do that. 

Keydunov had plenty of time to experiment, validate, and develop Cube, as well as get insights along the way. We caught up and talked about all of the above, as well as Cube's latest features and open source core.

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