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Sigma set Claude Sonnet 5.5 as the default AI model for supported AI providers. Additionally, a beta release for Sigma Assistant introduces contextual citations and analysis breakdowns to help verify generated answers.
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AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
BigQuery connections for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL are in preview
Google Cloud introduced BigQuery federated query connections to MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL in public preview.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
AWS added support for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration in CloudFormation, enabling single-property automated cluster creation and faster serverless database setup.
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Sigma enabled AI Agents to set temporary control values during automated or API runs, and updated the Sigma MCP server to allow assistants to override query filters.
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Sigma added treemap charts and dynamic chips to its AI Assistant, and introduced beta API endpoints for swapping data sources.
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Sigma's AI Assistant now supports governed metric timelines in KPIs, and new language options were added to workbook export and member management APIs.
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AI Anthropic as an AI provider (GA) Add an Anthropic API key to use models from Anthropic with Sigma AI features. When you set up Anthropic as your external AI provider, you use Anthropic for the large language model (LLM) and must also configure a second AI provider that has an embeddings model. For more details, see Add Anthropic as an AI provider .
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AI Assistant in build mode: new capabilities In workbooks, Sigma Assistant in build mode now supports the following: Dynamic dashboard layouts : Design dashboards that default to a dynamic layout featuring a prominent hero chart or KPI alongside other elements of varied widths and height.
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AI Assistant in build mode: reuse data model metrics In workbooks, Sigma Assistant in build mode now preserves data model sources you attach and reuses their metrics instead of recreating the underlying tables and calculations.
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AI Assistant in build mode: pivot table styling In workbooks, Sigma Assistant in build mode now creates pivot tables with automatic heatmap and matrix styling based on the type of measures.
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AI Migrate to Sigma with an AI assistant (Beta) You can use migration skills for Sigma to have an AI assistant rebuild your source content , the dashboards, reports, and data models in another business intelligence (BI) tool , as a Sigma document.