Releasesby GlyphExa 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.
Also shipped Sep 15, 2026Exa in September 2026 →
Predict dynamic table refresh behavior with EXPLAIN CHANGES (General availability)
You can now use EXPLAIN CHANGES to predict a dynamic table's refresh behavior before it happens, either for a manual refresh or as part of a DDL change, without applying the change.
Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview)
With this release, the Horizon Catalog Explorer is the default experience for browsing Snowflake objects in Snowsight, replacing Database Explorer. The Horizon Catalog Explorer provides consistent navigation and object detail pages while preserving the tabs and actions that you already use.
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability)
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages is now generally available. You can render a container-runtime app inside a page you host, such as a customer portal or an internal dashboard, using a single tag.
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming are now generally available. Elastic Channels provide one implicit, server-scaled ingestion path per pipe, so concurrent producers can stream directly to Snowflake tables and supported Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables without managing channel names, lifecycle, ordering, or offset tokens.
Webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will soon be generally available
Starting in October 2026, webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will be generally available. Automatically deploy your app when changes are pushed to a connected GitHub or Azure DevOps repository, so your deployed app stays in sync with your repository without manual redeployment. See Deploy a Databricks app .
Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
Sharing and reading foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Delta-format tables federated from OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue, without copying data into Databricks. See Add foreign Delta tables to a share .
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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.
Dynamic 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.
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 .
Publication research
Publication research We significantly expanded and improved research over academic publications. 350M publications : search across an index of 350 million publications.
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 .