Releasesby GlyphGoogle Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
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CoCo Desktop - General availability
CoCo Desktop is now generally available. CoCo Desktop is a native Mac and Windows desktop application that brings CoCo’s full agentic capabilities into an IDE-like surface, with a file editor, integrated terminal, agentic AI loop, agentic browser, agentic notebook, and deep Snowflake awareness.
Consuming Delta Shares in Horizon Catalog (General availability)
Snowflake builds for interoperability. Horizon Catalog is the metadata hub for your entire data estate, giving every team a single, unified window into every data asset regardless of where it lives or what format it uses. Today we expand that commitment. Consuming Delta Shares as a Catalog Linked Database in Horizon Catalog is now generally available.
Tag-based data protection policies (Public Preview)
Tag-based policy support is now available in public preview for aggregation policies, row access policies, projection policies, and join policies. This feature allows you to assign data protection policies to tags, automatically protecting any objects that have the tag assigned to them.
Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are generally available (GA)
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now generally available (GA) and available for production use. These models are designed to improve upon their predecessors' capabilities, including improved token usage and improved document understanding. See the linked model information pages for more information.
CodeMender available in Public Preview
CodeMender is now available in Preview . CodeMender is an AI code security agent that can find, verify, and fix deep vulnerabilities in your codebase. CodeMender wraps a fine-tuned harness around a large language model (LLM), using Google DeepMind-engineered prompts, skills, and orchestration logic to turn the model into an agentic system specialized in...
Open model endpoint deprecations
The following open model endpoints are deprecated and will be retired on October 21, 2026. For more information, see Open model deprecations . deepseek-ocr-maas deepseek-r1-0528-maas deepseek-v3.2-maas deepseek-v3.1-maas glm-5-maas glm-4.7-maas gpt-oss-20b-maas kimi-k2-thinking-maas llama-3.3-70b-instruct-maas minimax-m2-maas...
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Google Gemini 3.6 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.6 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
Priority pay-per-token for Foundation Model APIs
Priority pay-per-token, also referred to as priority mode, for Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token is generally available for partner models and in preview for open source models. Priority mode is for latency-sensitive, real-time applications that need more consistent availability under load.
Anthropic Claude Opus 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 5 as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use: Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token Query reasoning models Query vision models
Connect and govern any external model provider
Connect and govern any external model provider (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, and newly released models like Meta's Muse Spark 1.1) through Unity Gateway. Register a provider once as a governed Unity Catalog securable, and every team can query it through Unity Gateway with full governance and observability.
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-August 2026. Store MLflow traces in Unity Catalog tables for scalable, governed trace storage: storage is unlimited, traces are stored in OpenTelemetry (OTel) format, access is governed through Unity Catalog schema and...
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables is now generally available. Databricks recommends storing traces in Unity Catalog for new and production workloads: storage is unlimited, traces are stored in OpenTelemetry (OTel) format, access is governed through Unity Catalog schema and table permissions, and you can query traces with SQL, Genie, AI/BI...
Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired
Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired. Gemini 3.1 Pro is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Upcoming general availability of Unity Gateway
Unity Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon. Built on Unity Catalog, Unity Gateway extends governance to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, and tools.