Releasesby GlyphDynamic Highlights (research preview)
Dynamic Highlights (research preview) Dynamic Highlights selects excerpts across the complete result set instead of treating each page independently. It gives more of the shared context budget to useful sources and gives less context to sources that only repeat information already returned.
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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 Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
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.
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Exa Agent and Exa Connect in MCP
Exa Agent and Exa Connect in MCP Exa Agent is now available within Exa MCP. Use it from Claude, Cursor, or any other MCP client when the task needs more than a single search call. Enable the Agent tool with https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp?tools=agent_run , then call agent_run to run the agent through completion and return its output.
Introducing Exa Connect
Introducing Exa Connect Exa Connect gives Exa Agent live access to the world's public and private data. It launched with Similarweb, Fiber.ai, Baselayer, Financial Datasets, Affiliate.com, Particle, Jinko, and Additional Partners. You attach them via dataSources on POST /agent/runs . Read the Exa Connect guide → · Announcement tweet →
Agent Ultra
Agent Ultra Agent Ultra is Exa Agent's highest-effort mode, built for large list building, deep multi-source research, and criteria that are hard to verify. Set effort: "ultra" on a run. Metered : billed at standard Agent usage rates, up to a default $20 per run. Set budget.maxCostDollars to change the cap.
Publication research
Publication research We significantly expanded and improved research over academic publications. 350M publications : search across an index of 350 million publications.
Lite search, recommended search types, and search warnings
Lite search, recommended search types, and search warnings The search types we recommend are now lite , auto , and deep , and /search tells developers when a request doesn't do what they expect. lite is a new search type for latency- and cost-sensitive projects. Set type: "lite" on /search .
Introducing Exa Agent
Introducing Exa Agent We released a new class of frontier web research agents that are accessible via API. Exa Agent API supports parameters including a natural-language query, effort mode, outputSchema for structured outputs, and input.data to build upon an existing dataset. Read the Exa Agent API guide →
API Deprecation Notice
API Deprecation Notice We retired a few legacy items from the Exa API: /research endpoint : replaced by /search with type: "deep-reasoning" . resolvedSearchType and highlightScores (response fields) : returned null from April 15, removed May 1. startCrawlDate / endCrawlDate (deprecated request parameters) : silently ignored from April 15.
Introducing Exa Monitors
Introducing Exa Monitors Monitors run Exa searches on a schedule and deliver results to your webhook, deduplicated against previous runs so you only get new content. Track topics over time : competitor news, funding rounds, regulatory changes, research papers. Structured results : return plain text or typed JSON via outputSchema .