Releasesby GlyphAnthropic 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 .
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Fivetran connection cron scheduling enters beta
Connections can now use one or more cron expressions to control exactly when they sync, giving finer control than fixed sync frequencies.
Fivetran Connection Warnings REST API enters private preview
New endpoints retrieve active warnings for a connection, grouped by destination table with codes, messages and timestamps, and dismiss all instances of a warning type, enabling programmatic warning management.
Snowflake App Runtime (General availability)
Snowflake App Runtime is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Gemini Enterprise: Overage controls available for all invoiced Cloud Billing accounts
Configuring overage controls in Gemini Enterprise is available to all projects linked to an invoiced Cloud Billing account . Previously, customers that received an email with the subject line [Billing Update] New Gemini Enterprise overage billing controls launching Aug 17, 2026 couldn't enable overages despite having an invoiced Cloud Billing account.
Pricing updates for agent metering
Session and memory bank compute metering is in effect for the Agent Platform compute SKU. For more information, see Gemini Agent Platform Pricing .
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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 .
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.
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.
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 .
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway with text and image inputs. See supported regions . You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .