Releasesby GlyphCortex AI Gateway (Preview)
We are pleased to announce the preview of Cortex AI Gateway, the control plane where you govern how AI applications and third-party agents in your organization reach models.
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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 .
Lakebase snapshots API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase snapshots programmatically. The snapshots API lets you create, get, list, and delete point-in-time snapshots of a project branch, and restore a snapshot by creating a new branch from it. This API is in Beta. See Create a snapshot .
Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta)
Data Classification can now scan Unity Catalog views in addition to tables, classifying columns for sensitive data using the same detection engine. This is a Beta feature. See Classify views .
Reinforcement learning fine-tuning in the Google Cloud console (Preview)
You can create, monitor, and test reinforcement learning fine-tuning jobs for Gemini models in the Google Cloud console ( Preview ). From the Models > Tuning page, you can configure Python code or model-based reward functions, test reward logic against sample prompts before launching a job, track training and evaluation metrics in real time, and test tuned...
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are generally available
Two new audio-to-audio Live API models target real-time voice apps: gemini-3.8-live for low-latency dialogue with asynchronous function calling, and gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking for high-reasoning voice use cases.
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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.
Cortex Agents object enhancements (General availability)
The following Cortex Agents object enhancements are now generally available:
Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake.
Cortex AI Function Evaluation for measuring quality (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI Function Evaluation is now available in public preview, enabling customers to measure the output quality, cost, and token usage of custom AI Functions and Cortex AI calls against labeled datasets.
Cortex AI Function Optimization for more efficient AI implementations (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI Function Optimization is now available in public preview, enabling customers to automatically search across prompts and models for improved implementations of custom AI Functions.
Cortex Agents Compact API (Preview)
The Cortex Agents Compact API is now available in preview. Use the agent:compact endpoint to summarize a conversation and pass the compact representation to subsequent agent:run requests. Compacting conversation history reduces token consumption and helps conversations stay within the model context window.
Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)
With this release, Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available. An RSS is a privilege ceiling that limits what an agent can do on behalf of a user. It intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges the user doesn't already have through their roles.
Data lineage for Cortex Agents
You can now use data lineage to see which data a Cortex Agent can reach through the tools declared in its specification. A semantic view that a Cortex Analyst tool references, and a Cortex Search service that a Cortex Search tool references, both appear upstream of the agent.