Releasesby GlyphGoogle 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 .
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Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .
AlloyDB real-time BigQuery access adds limit pushdown and runtime projects
The preview feature pushes some LIMIT and OFFSET clauses down to BigQuery to cut network transfer, and optional runtime projects let queries run and bill compute separately from the owning project.
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027 . Customer-hosted instances must upgrade to OpenJDK 21 .
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash available in Global, US, and EU regions
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) in the global , us , and eu regions. For more information, see: Manage features on the web app Data residency for Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus Editions and Gemini Notebook Enterprise
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now generally available (GA) and available for production use. For more information on 3.8 Flash, see the model page .
Deferred tier for autonomous agent scheduling (Preview)
The deferred tier is available in Preview. The deferred tier automatically queues non-latency-sensitive background agent workloads and schedules them to execute during off-peak hours. Key capabilities and benefits include: 50% token discount : Receive a 50% discount on consumed tokens for deferred workloads.
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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 .
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.
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 .
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 .