Snowflake Cortex AI Release notes from Snowflake

31 releases · 10 this month

31 releases

Date	Release	Type
Sep 21	Cortex Agents Compact API (Preview) Preview	Preview
Sep 21	Cortex AI Function Evaluation for measuring quality (Public Preview) Preview	Preview
Sep 21	Cortex AI Function Optimization for more efficient AI implementations (Public Preview) Preview	Preview
Sep 16	Cortex Agents object enhancements (General availability) GA	GA
Sep 15	Cortex AI Gateway (Preview) Preview	Preview
Sep 15	Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability) GA	GA
Sep 14	Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview) Preview	Preview
Sep 3	Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability) GA	GA
Sep 2	Data lineage for Cortex Agents Update	Update
Sep 1	Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents Update	Update
Aug 30	Cortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 28	Snowflake recommends transitioning from Cortex Analyst to Cortex Agents Update	Update
Aug 26	Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 26	Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 21	Version targeting for Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 20	Cortex Agent code execution tool (Preview) Preview	Preview
Aug 20	AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 18	Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 10	AI_MULTI_EMBED support for large video files in semantic video search (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 7	Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability) GA	GA
Aug 3	AI Agents Inventory in the Trust Center AI Security tab (Preview) Preview	Preview
Jul 31	AI_TRANSCRIBE now supports M4A and MOV files Update	Update
Jul 27	AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now available in GCP Middle East Central2 (Dammam) Update	Update
Jul 27	AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (Preview) Preview	Preview
Jul 23	SHOW CORTEX BASE MODELS command (General availability) GA	GA
Jul 15	AI_TRANSCRIBE now supports AAC audio files Update	Update
Jul 6	AI_TRANSLATE now supports long-document translation Update	Update
Jul 3	Resource budgets for Cortex Search Update	Update
Jun 26	SQL queries as logical tables in semantic views (General availability) GA	GA
Jun 26	Support for variables in semantic views (General availability) GA	GA
Jun 25	Support for sample values and enum indicators in semantic view DDL Update	Update

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