Releasesby GlyphCortex Training (Preview)
Cortex Training is now available in preview, allowing users to customize open-weight LLMs using a serverless service within Snowflake.
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Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.
Spanner supports equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values
Spanner now allows equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values directly in GROUP_BY and ORDER BY clauses. It also supports implicit type coercion and search indexes for JSON equality operations.
[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
Inference request metadata logging (GA)
Inference request metadata logging is now generally available for Gemini and Claude models. It records model usage, latency, and error codes without capturing prompt or response content.
Computer use tool is available in General Availability
The Computer use tool is now generally available with new safety governance features. Administrators can configure organization-wide guardrails for sensitive actions like financial transactions or data modification.
Gemini Notebook Enterprise: Visual refresh
Gemini Notebook Enterprise features a refreshed UI, new audio language selection, and custom summary options, all now generally available.
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Cortex Agents Coding Agent thinking effort, system instructions, and stage mounts
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent agent:run API now supports three additional public controls when using the code_toolset_all tool, providing more granular configuration for coding tasks.
Cortex AI usage in Native App usage history
Developers can now track Cortex AI credit usage, including agent tokens and search embeddings, attributed to Snowflake Native Apps using the APPLICATION_DAILY_USAGE_HISTORY view.
AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT introduces AGENTIC mode for intelligent document processing (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT introduces AGENTIC mode in Public Preview, turning complex enterprise documents, from financial reports to technical manuals, into actionable information for AI applications, analytics, and automation.
Retrieve Cortex Search (Public Preview)
The CORTEX_SEARCH_RETRIEVE table function is now in public preview, allowing users to execute low-latency search queries directly from SQL for RAG and chatbot applications.
Responses API for the Cortex REST API (Preview)
The new Responses API in the Cortex REST API provides OpenAI-compatible endpoints for accessing models.
Coding agent MCP tool
Snowflake-managed MCP servers can now expose a coding agent that provides a managed coding sandbox attached to a conversation thread without requiring a stored agent object.
Cortex Fine-tuning: New model training no longer available in AWS US East 1
Starting October 20, 2026, Cortex Fine-tuning will no longer support the creation of new fine-tuned models in AWS US East 1 (N. Virginia).
Cortex Tools for Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
We are pleased to announce the preview of Cortex Tools, a part of Cortex AI Gateway that connects the AI clients your organization uses to the business tools your work already lives in, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supported clients include CoCo Desktop, CoCo CLI, Claude, and Cursor.