Google Cloud Release notes and new features

Gemini Enterprise: Video generation upgrades to Omni 1.2 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available for video generation, replacing Veo 3.1. The update improves video clarity and instruction following.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available, offering omni-modal processing for text, image, and video. New features include standalone video upscaling, extended generation durations, and reference-guided video editing.

• Interactions API long decodes for Gemini 4 ArgonGA
• Gemini Omni 1.2 FlashGA

BigQuery query text heatmap adds hierarchical context reference navigation

BigQuery query text heatmap now allows users to view and navigate through a hierarchical list of context references, such as nested function calls or view references, for stage steps in general availability.

Gemini Enterprise: Prepaid credits for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions and usage above quota

Prepaid credits are now generally available for self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, allowing users to pay for Gemini Enterprise usage without an invoiced billing account.

Managed OpenTelemetry for GKE is generally available

Managed OpenTelemetry for GKE is now generally available, allowing users to collect traces, metrics, and logs using a Google-managed collector. It supports OTLP ingestion and improved integration with Cloud Telemetry API.

AlloyDB AI and vector search features are generally available

AlloyDB now provides general availability for four-level ScaNN vector indexes on PostgreSQL 17, supporting up to 10 billion rows. It also includes automatic index maintenance and streaming functionality for improved recall on filtered searches.

xAI's Grok 4.7 is generally available

xAI's Grok 4.7 model is now generally available for production use on global and US multi-region endpoints.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are Generally Available (GA)

Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS models are now generally available. They support structured metadata, multi-speaker dialogue, and streaming, with voice design and replication features remaining in preview.

Gemini Enterprise: Single-user quota limits

Gemini Enterprise administrators can now set single-user quota limits to prevent individual users from consuming the entire subscription quota pool. This feature is generally available.

Supervised fine-tuning for Gemini 3 models is available in General Availability

Supervised fine-tuning for Gemini 3 models is available in General Availability (GA) . Key updates include the following: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite support : Supervised fine-tuning is now supported for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite ( gemini-3.5-flash-lite ), in addition to Gemini 3.5 Flash ( gemini-3.5-flash ) and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite ).

Lakehouse federation in AlloyDB is generally available ( GA )

Lakehouse federation in AlloyDB is generally available ( GA ). This feature lets you query live data in BigQuery directly from AlloyDB using the bigquery_fdw extension without moving or duplicating the data. For more information, see Access to real-time data in BigQuery overview and Configure access to real-time data in BigQuery .

Gemini Enterprise: Configure citations for custom MCP data stores

You can configure the citation_mappings parameter for custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) data stores using the REST API to display source citation chips when Gemini Enterprise answers questions using tools on your custom MCP server. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Configure citations for custom MCP data stores .

You can now use reusable column aliases in GoogleSQL

You can now use reusable column aliases in GoogleSQL. This feature lets you define an alias for an expression in the SELECT clause of a SQL query and immediately reference that alias within the same SELECT list or in the WHERE clause of the same query block.

Priority PayGo support for Gemini Nano Banana 2.1

Priority Pay-as-you-go (PayGo) is available in General Availability (GA) for Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 ( gemini-nano-banana-2.1 ) on the global endpoint.

Gemini 4 Argon (gemini-4-argon) generally available (GA)

Released Gemini 4 Argon (gemini-4-argon), our most capable model built for complex coding, agentic, math, and science tasks. For API changes, pricing, and migration guidance, see What's new in Gemini 4 Argon.

Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now...

Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA)

The BigQuery Data Engineering Agent is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) regional endpoint and...

The BigQuery Data Engineering Agent is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) regional endpoint and supports the gemini-3.5-flash model. For more information, see Where Gemini in BigQuery processes your data . This feature is Generally Available (GA).

Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 generally available (GA)

Released Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1), the latest high-efficiency image generation and conversational editing model. An update to Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3.1-flash-image), it maintains Flash-level speed and cost efficiency while delivering significant improvements in visual quality, prompt adherence, multi-turn character consistency, text...

Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets

Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets. You can package, govern, and share Looker (Google Cloud core) dashboards, dashboard elements, Looks, Explores, and LookML projects, models, and views in a data product using Google Group mirroring and IAM access controls. This feature is generally available .

The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured...

The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured data. It supports a mix of text, images, audio, video, and PDF files. You can use this model in the AI.EMBED , AI.SIMILARITY , and AI.GENERATE_EMBEDDING functions. This model is generally available .

• The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured...GA
• Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables now support flexible column names by defaultGA

The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA)

• The Data Engineering Agent now supports the gemini-3.7-flash model for the us , eu , and global...
• The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA)GA

BigQuery pipelines provides support for automated metadata enrichment and Knowledge Catalog data quality...

BigQuery pipelines provides support for automated metadata enrichment and Knowledge Catalog data quality scorecard integration. In addition, the Data Engineering Agent can proactively generate semantic metadata for your pipeline assets. For more information, see Metadata enrichment and data quality scorecard integration .

• BigQuery pipelines provides support for automated metadata enrichment and Knowledge Catalog data quality...GA
• Chatting with graphs in conversational analytics is now generally availableGA
• An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available

Gemini Enterprise: Support for new actions

Support for new actions is generally available (GA) for the following data store: Microsoft Outlook : Add attachments, Create message, Forward mail, Move mail, Reply to message, and Update message. For more information, see Connect a third-party data source .

Gemini 3.8 Live

Gemini 3.8 Live is generally available. This release introduces improvements in voice quality, model reliability, and agent orchestration. For more information, see the following: Gemini 3.8 Live Gemini Live API overview

Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash enabled by default

Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) and enabled by default in the Gemini Enterprise app in the global , us , and eu regions. Gemini Enterprise administrators can use the Gemini 3.8 Flash toggle in feature management to turn off the model for their users, or turn it on for unsupported in-country regions by confirming the warning dialog to route...

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) audio models and the Gemini API Voices endpoint (/v1beta/voices): Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-tts): Flagship creative TTS model engineered for studio-grade voice fidelity, nuanced acting, regional dialects, and long-form...

You can now use the AlloyDB Columnar Engine as a read-optimized, in-memory cache for HNSW vector indexes

You can now use the AlloyDB Columnar Engine as a read-optimized, in-memory cache for HNSW vector indexes. This feature is generally available ( GA ). It accelerates vector search performance and increases queries per second (QPS) for vector workloads. For more information, see Accelerate queries with the Columnar Engine .

xAI's Grok 4.6 is generally available

Grok 4.6 is now generally available (GA) and available for production use on the global endpoint and the US multi-region endpoint.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber available in allowlisted GA

Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is a post-training version of the Gemini 3.8 Flash model tailored specifically for cybersecurity use cases. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is available in GA behind an allowlist. For more information, see Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber .

• Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber available in allowlisted GAGA
• CodeMender updates (v0.8.0)

Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are generally available

Two new audio-to-audio Live API models target real-time voice apps: gemini-3.8-live for low-latency dialogue with asynchronous function calling, and gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking for high-reasoning voice use cases.