Releasesby GlyphZhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway for multimodal reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application code.
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You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging
You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging. This feature is generally available .
Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability)
Referencing a Cortex Extension from an agent skill is now generally available. Set the skill source type to CORTEX_EXTENSION and path to the extension's fully qualified name, and Snowflake expands the reference into the extension's member skills at request time, so you don't list each skill individually.
Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability)
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent is now generally available. Add the code_toolset_all tool type to a Cortex Agent, and Snowflake provisions and manages a sandbox backed by the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo: bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills.
Organization user types (General availability)
With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don't specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.
Semantic Studio (Preview)
Semantic Studio is now available in public preview for all accounts. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deployment to the live Snowflake object in a single surface.
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview . You can use the gcloud alpha dataplex dbt metadata-jobs command to extract and import technical, semantic (MetricFlow), operational, data quality, and lineage metadata from dbt Core artifacts into Knowledge Catalog.
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xAI Grok 4.6 is now available on Unity Gateway
xAI Grok 4.6 is now available on Unity Gateway for reasoning-heavy coding and agentic workflows. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application code.
AI Functions REST API is now generally available
You can now call ai_parse_document , ai_extract , and ai_classify through the AI Functions REST API. See intelligent document processing for more details.
Monitor and cap external provider costs
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.
Unity Gateway now supports Provisioned Throughput
Govern Provisioned Throughput (PT) traffic through Unity Gateway, bringing PT models under the same access controls, usage tracking, rate limits, payload logging, and guardrails as other model traffic. See AI governance with Unity Gateway .
Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available
Querying Unity Gateway model services and model provider services with Consumer access is currently opt-in through the Consumer access to Unity Gateway Public Preview . When this capability becomes generally available, consumer access users will be able to query these services without the preview enabled.
Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta)
The unified trace table is in Beta . It captures every request and response across your Unity Gateway services into one Unity Catalog table in OpenTelemetry format, giving you a single place to monitor, debug, secure, and audit all AI activity. See Monitor all AI activity using the unified trace table .
Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Unity Gateway now supports Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
Google Gemini 3.8 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.8 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 .