Transformers Release 5.17.0
Release v5.17.0 New Model additions HYV4 Hy4-Preview is a 780B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model that activates 49B parameters per token. Each MoE layer holds 256 routed experts plus one always-active shared expert and routes every token to 8 of them. The context window is 1M tokens.
Also shipped Sep 10, 2026Hugging Face in September 2026 →
BigQuery conversational analytics adds ML.CORRELATION in preview
Conversational analytics can now use ML.CORRELATION to calculate statistical correlations between a target column and one or more metric columns in a table.
BigQuery ML.METRICS evaluates predictions without a stored model
The preview ML.METRICS function computes classification or regression evaluation metrics on any table or query with actual and predicted values, with no need to create or reference a stored model.
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data. This feature is in Preview .
BigQuery Data Engineering Agent integrates with BigQuery Graph
The Data Engineering Agent now uses BigQuery Graph for extra context between source and destination schemas, improving schema mapping accuracy in data engineering pipelines. It is generally available.
Using dbt artifacts for Slim CI and defer to production in dbt Projects on Snowflake (General availability)
Slim CI, defer to production, failed-execution recovery, and concurrent execution are now generally available for dbt Projects on Snowflake. Reuse dbt artifacts from recent production executions to accelerate development, streamline CI/CD workflows, and recover from failed production runs without maintaining a separate artifact store.
External secret providers (Preview)
External secret providers are now in preview. If your organization already keeps API keys, database passwords, and similar values in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager, Snowflake can read those values when a query needs them, so you don't have to maintain a second copy in a Snowflake secret .
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Transformers Release v5.16.1
Release v5.16.1 This is a special release as we include GLM! (and a few small fixes) GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series.
Transformers Release: v5.16.0
Release v5.16.0 New Model additions Qwen4-Exp Qwen4-Exp builds on Qwen3.5's hybrid text and multimodal architecture with three key components: GatedResidual (GR), Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA), and Per-Layer Embedding (PLE). GR is a Qwen-developed residual architecture that combines Hyper-Connection with GatedNorm.
Transformers Release 5.18.0
New Model additions Nemotron 3 Diarization Nemotron 3 Diarization is an open-weight streaming speaker diarization model designed to determine "who spoke when" in real-world audio. It supports both streaming and offline inference, handles up to eight speakers, and orders speaker outputs by each speaker's first arrival in the input audio.
Transformers Patch release: v5.15.1
Patch release v5.15.1 This patch most notably solves a few issues with DFlash and MTP candidate generators, as well as an issue where images could sometimes not be processed on accelerator if using Lanczos filter.
Transformers Release v5.19.0
Release v5.19.0 New Model additions EmbeddingGemma2 EmbeddingGemma 2 is a multimodal embedding model from Google built on the Gemma 4 architecture. It encodes text, images, audio, and video, individually or combined in one input, into a shared 768-dimensional vector space for cross-modal retrieval, semantic similarity, clustering, and classification.
Transformers Release: v5.15.0
Release v5.15.0 New Model additions Meta Muse Glimmer Muse Glimmer, released today, is Meta’s new multimodal model, especially designed for agentic use cases. Distilled from Muse to 30B parameters, and released under the Apache 2.0 license, it can be deployed to local setups for privacy-aware applications such as coding, document analysis, personal...
Transformers Release v5.20.0
Release v5.20.0 New Model additions Muse Spark Open Muse Spark Open is a multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta that takes text, images, audio, and video as input and generates text. It has 816B total parameters (42B active per token) and a context window of up to 1,048,576 tokens shared across modalities.
Transformers Release v5.20.1
Release v5.20.1 Special surprise including the new model Beam from Reflection AI :partying_face: Beam is a token-efficient, frontier-scale model focused on coding and agentic use cases. It is built for teams that want to run a powerful model on their own hardware, infrastructure, or cloud, and customize it to their specific needs.