Releasesby GlyphMonitor 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.
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Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
Looker New/Edit Roles Enhancement enters preview
A modernized step-by-step interface for creating and editing roles is available in preview on the Roles page of the Admin panel.
Now available in preview, you can define and chat with data agents on a LookML dashboard
Now available in preview, you can define and chat with data agents on a LookML dashboard . To use this feature, the Conversational Analytics and Enable Dashboard Agents settings must be enabled on the Gemini in Looker Admin page.
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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.
Zhipu 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.
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.
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 .
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 .
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 .
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway for enterprise reasoning, structured document processing, coding, agentic search, multimodal inputs, and long-context workloads. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
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.