Nova-3 Improved Models for Danish, Estonian, Flemish, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Urdu, and Vietnamese
We have released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for nine existing languages. These updates enhance transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.
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Shopify connector (Beta)
The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests e-commerce data such as products, orders, customers, inventory, fulfillments, and discounts from Shopify into Databricks. Authentication uses the Shopify OAuth client credentials grant.
Lakebase backup schedule API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically. The snapshot schedule API lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences (daily, weekly, or monthly) and how long each cadence's snapshots are retained. This API is in Beta and available to all Lakebase workspaces. See Create a backup schedule .
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.
Claude Opus 5.5 launches with a 1M token context window and 128k output
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a default 1M token context, 128k max output and always-on adaptive thinking. It costs $4 / $20 per MTok, below Claude Opus 5, and is on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Fast mode research preview available for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API
Fast mode, in research preview, can now be used with Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API.
Claude API beta lets tools be defined inside mid-conversation system messages
With the inline-tools-2026-09-15 beta header, a tool_addition block can carry a full tool definition, so agents can add tools, change schemas or upgrade server tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. The same header covers adding and removing tools by reference.
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Improved models
Batch and streaming models Polish ( pl ) Danish ( da ) Batch models Vietnamese ( vi ) Flemish ( nl-BE ) Streaming models Estonian ( et ) Macedonian ( mk ) Urdu ( ur ) Italian ( it ) Lithuanian ( lt ) You do not need to change your API requests to access the improvements to existing languages; the updates are live for all users.
Nova-3 Improved Models for Flemish, German (Switzerland), Lithuanian, and Portuguese
We have released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for four existing languages. These updates enhance transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.
Improved models
Batch and streaming models German (Switzerland) ( de-CH ) Portuguese ( pt , pt-BR , pt-PT ) Lithuanian ( lt ) Streaming models Flemish ( nl-BE ) You do not need to change your API requests to access the improvements to existing languages; the updates are live for all users.
Toggle Numerals Mid-Stream on Flux STT
Switch Flux STT to digits for a PIN, phone number, or order number, then back to words, without reconnecting. To turn Numerals on or off during a Flux STT stream, send numerals as a boolean in a Configure message: { "type": "Configure", "numerals": true } The update applies to transcripts Flux STT sends after it processes the message, and ConfigureSuccess...
Correction: Browser Agent SDK has no client-side VAD
The Browser Agent SDK never shipped client-side Silero voice activity detection. Documentation published with the SDK described it as an available feature, and that documentation was wrong. The following did not exist in any released package: The vad option on MicrophoneOptions in @deepgram/agents . The speechThreshold and silenceThreshold VAD options.
Correction: token minting uses ttl_seconds
The server-side token-minting example on the Browser Agent SDK overview posted {"ttl": 30} to POST /v1/auth/grant . The field is named ttl_seconds : body: JSON.stringify({ ttl_seconds: 30 }), /v1/auth/grant accepts unrecognized fields, returns 200 , and issues a token with the 30-second default, so a request built from the old example raised no error while...
Nova-3 Pharma: Speech-to-Text for Pharmaceutical Use Cases (English)
We have released nova-3-pharma , a new Nova-3 model purpose-built for pharmaceutical vocabulary, with a focus on accurate drug-name recognition. It is designed for pharmacy and healthcare voice-agent workflows where getting the medication right matters most. Available in English for both batch and streaming.
Container Images (release 260915)
- quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:release-260915 Equivalent image to: quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:1.192.37 quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:release-260915 Equivalent image to: quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:3.131.2 Minimum required NVIDIA driver version: >=580 , open kernel module flavor The minimum driver version has increased this release ...