Releasesby GlyphChart controls and easier collaboration
🎨 Generative chart controls Previously, even small edits to your charts in generative apps required new prompts to the agent. Now, you can build custom, code-generated apps with the Hex Agent, and then use the Style panel to make point-and-click chart polishes.
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You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option
You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option. BigQuery uses the XGBoost 3.1.0 library to load and make predictions on XGBoost models. This feature is generally available .
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability)
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.
Lakeflow Designer August Release
The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.
Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response. See Genie Code task for jobs .
Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview , it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures. See Use Genie Code with AI Runtime .
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.
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Semantic projects via CLI
⌨️ Semantic projects via CLI Pull your semantic spec out of Hex and into your repo, for local development and source control. This makes it easier to audit context or track what's changed.
More control over Generative app iteration
🎮 More control over Generative app iteration Directly edit text, create new chart properties, and queue up viz tweaks all in line. ✏️ Direct text editing You can also edit text directly in the app builder, just like you would in a doc.
Start building an app right from your conversation
🤖 Quickly toggle from chat to notebook Previously, you needed to wait a minute for Hex to convert your Thread to a notebook, now it happens automatically. After starting a conversation with the Hex Agent, you can easily switch views and build in the underlying notebook.
Tune how the agent runs
⚡ Fast mode Need an answer now ? Flip on fast mode in the model picker to push Opus models to 2.5x faster token output, at increased usage. The boost is most dramatic on long blocks of pure token output: big explanations, large blocks of code, or heavy reasoning.
Publish eval suites, skip approvals, and build Hex projects from your chat agent
⚖️ Publish and version eval suites Did last week’s guide change actually make the agent better? Now you can answer that question without rerunning every test by hand. Publish an eval suite from the CLI, schedule it to run automatically, and track its performance over time in Context Studio .
🧪 Introducing Evals
🧪 Introducing Evals Measure Hex Agent performance and test context changes safely before they ship, all from the CLI. If you've added a guide or tweaked a semantic model, Evals helps you measure whether it actually helped , before you publish. To do that, define a suite of test questions with expected outcomes and run them against the Hex Agent.
Explore and share insights from Generative Apps
💬 Chat with Generative Apps Data apps are built to answer questions, but the best insights often lead to new ones. Explorers can now chat with published Generative Apps to ask follow-up questions, investigate metrics, and keep exploring in an agent Thread without leaving the app.
Command (line) and conquer
🤖 Hex Agent via CLI and API You can now have conversations with the Hex Agent via CLI and API, so you can set it to work from the tools and scripts you already use, not just the browser.