Releasesby GlyphGrok 4.1 models deprecation
The Grok 4.1 model family (including xai/grok-4.1-fast-reasoning and xai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning ) on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is deprecated and will be shut down on August 20, 2026. After this date, Google Agent Platform Model as a Service (MaaS) will no longer serve these models.
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Object metadata column is now in Public Preview
The _object_metadata column is now in Public Preview. The _object_metadata column is a hidden metadata column that exposes object-level properties for objects in cloud storage, including MIME type, ETag, user-defined key-value metadata, system-defined metadata, and object tags. It is available starting from Databricks Runtime 18.1.
Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products, including Genie Agents , Genie Code , and Genie One , are billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 Databricks units (DBUs) of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are scheduled for retirement
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro will be retired on October 2, 2026. The recommended replacement models are Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is scheduled for retirement
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 will be retired on October 9, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Restrict access to AI Functions with Unity Catalog permissions (Public Preview)
You can now use Unity Catalog permissions to restrict which task-specific AI Functions your organization can access, independent of foundation model access. Contact your account team to enable this feature. See AI Functions Unity Catalog permissions .
Genie Agents now uses pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie Agents is billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 DBUs of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free amount is billed in DBUs, reflecting the underlying LLM models and agents that power each Genie Agents session.
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Memory Bank IngestEvents is generally available (GA)
The Memory Bank IngestEvents API is generally available. The IngestEvents API decouples event ingestion from memory generation, letting you continuously stream content to Memory Bank and configure when memory generation is triggered.
Memory Bank support for Gemini Embedding 2
Memory Bank supports the gemini-embedding-2 model for similarity search configurations. When you configure gemini-embedding-2 as the embedding model, you must use one of the global , us , or eu endpoints in the model's resource name (for example, projects/{project}/locations/us/publishers/google/models/gemini-embedding-2 ).
Retirement for preview models for 2.5 Flash, 2.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.1 Flash-Lite
The following preview model endpoints have been retired and are no longer accessible: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-2025 gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview See Migrate to the latest Google models for information on how to migrate your project.
AlphaGenome released for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
AlphaGenome, Google DeepMind's state-of-the-art genomics foundation model, is now available for deployment and use with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Designed to decipher the functional regulatory code of the human genome, AlphaGenome analyzes large-scale DNA sequences at single-base resolution to predict how genetic variations affect molecular and...
Memory Bank memory profiles are generally available (GA)
Memory profiles in Memory Bank are generally available (GA). Memory profiles allow you to generate structured profiles, which are data structures with static schemas populated and updated using LLMs.
Provisioned Throughput: Multiple pending new orders GA
The ability to submit multiple pending orders is generally available. you can submit up to seven Google model orders for the same model and region. See Multiple pending orders .
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 is available in Model Garden.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview and 3 Pro Image Preview are retired
The Nano Banana preview models gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview have been retired and are no longer accessible. Update your code to use either gemini-3.1-flash-image or gemini-3-flash-image instead.