Releasesby GlyphAnalytical search (Public Preview)
Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...
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MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta
Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings . See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause .
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta . Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables.
Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
Released gemini-omni-flash-preview, a high-performance multimodal model designed for high-speed video generation and conversational video editing. Using the Interactions API, you can generate 3--10 second videos at 720p from text descriptions or animate still images, and then conversationally edit and refine the outputs.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is generally available
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image is a multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency, cost-effective image generation and editing, now GA in the Gemini API.
[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
Claude Sonnet 5 launches with a 1M token context window at $2 / $10 per MTok
Claude Sonnet 5 supports a 1M token context, 128k max output and the same tools as Sonnet 4.6 except Priority Tier. Migrating teams should note that adaptive thinking is on by default and manual extended thinking changes.
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Workload identity federation for Snowflake workloads that access external services (General availability)
Snowflake can now act as the OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider when Snowflake workloads authenticate to external services. To use this capability, create a secret of type WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_FEDERATION and share its issuer URL and subject identifier with the external service to establish trust.
Dynamic Iceberg table replication (General availability)
Snowflake now supports replication of dynamic Iceberg tables as part of replication and failover groups. Previously, dynamic Iceberg tables were skipped during replication refresh operations. For more information, see Configure replication for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables .
Snowflake Container Runtime version 2.7
Snowflake Container Runtime CPU and GPU version 2.7 is now available. This release includes the following changes: For the full package lists and details, see Snowflake Container Runtime release notes .
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.
VARIANT data type on Delta Direct tables (General availability)
With this release, Snowflake supports the VARIANT data type on Iceberg tables created from Delta table files in object storage (Delta Direct). When your Delta tables include variant columns, Snowflake maps them to the Snowflake VARIANT data type. You can query semi-structured data using VARIANT functions and dot or bracket notation.
Domain verification (General availability)
With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of domain verification. Domain verification lets an account administrator prove ownership of an email domain by publishing a DNS TXT record.
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available. Deep Research is an investigation mode for complex, open-ended questions that require multi-step reasoning across your data.