Releasesby GlyphAI_TRANSCRIBE delivers improved transcription accuracy
Snowflake upgraded Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE to deliver improved speech recognition and transcription accuracy across multiple languages, including English and French, without requiring updates to existing SQL queries.
Also shipped Nov 13, 2026Snowflake in November 2026 →
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.
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.
Deploy pg\_pinecone to Render or Railway
Pinecone released one-click templates to deploy pg_pinecone on Render or Railway running PostgreSQL 18 with preloaded vector extensions.
More from Snowflake Cortex AIEvery Snowflake Cortex AI release →
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.
Semantic view materializations (General availability)
Semantic view materializations are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . With materializations, you can pre-aggregate frequently queried dimensions and metrics in a semantic view to improve query performance.
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now support page filtering with FL_FILTER_PAGES
Snowflake's AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT functions now support the FL_FILTER_PAGES parameter, allowing users to process specific document pages directly within SQL.
Background runs and additional supplementary tools for agents in the Snowflake-managed MCP server
Snowflake added a background boolean parameter to CORTEX_AGENT_RUN and CODING_AGENT tools in its managed MCP server to enable non-blocking, pollable agent executions.
Cortex AI Gateway inference, observability, and cost management (General availability)
Inference, observability, and cost management for Cortex AI Gateway are now generally available. The gateway gives AI clients in your organization one governed endpoint to reach models, records a trace of every request, and attributes spend to the users who made it.
AI_EXTRACT updates
AI_EXTRACT now delivers a 12.8% relative improvement in average extraction accuracy compared with the previous version in our evaluations. Extract fields, lists, and tables more accurately from complex documents, including forms, handwritten content, dense tables, and charts.
Level of detail (LOD) expressions in semantic views (Preview)
Level of detail (LOD) expressions are now in preview for semantic views. An LOD expression calculates a value at a grain that's different from the query grain. You can use LOD expressions to:
Cortex Training (Preview)
Cortex Training is now available in preview, allowing users to customize open-weight LLMs using a serverless service within Snowflake.