Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
You can now run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK . Claude Managed Agents handles the agent loop server-side, including the model, tools, session state, and sandboxed web research. That means you can ship a Slack research bot built on Claude Managed Agents and Chat SDK, with one persistent session per thread and streamed briefs with sources.
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Monitor and cap external provider costs
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.
Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
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Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway
Hy4 Preview from Tencent is now available on AI Gateway. Hy4 Preview is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 770B total parameters and 49B active per token, aimed at long-horizon coding, document analysis, game development, and scientific reasoning. It serves a context window of 1M tokens.
Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
You can now create eve agents directly from the Vercel dashboard, giving you a deployed agent that you can chat with right away. The builder scaffolds the agent, creates a private Git repository with its files, and deploys it as a new Vercel project on your team.
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
The AI SDK harness layer now supports Cursor through the official @ai-sdk/harness-cursor adapter. The harness layer lets your application run different coding agents through the same HarnessAgent interface, so you can switch agents without changing your application code.
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin from Inclusion AI is now available on AI Gateway and free to use through September 25. Ling 3.0 Flash Fin is a finance-focused version of Ling 3.0 Flash . It has a 256K-token context window, produces up to 32K output tokens, and supports reasoning and function calling.
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway from August 30 through September 13, in partnership with MiniMax. The discount covers requests billed through AI Gateway, at every duration and in every aspect ratio the model supports.
Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
Muse Image from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available on AI Gateway. It is their first image model and a separate family from Muse Spark, returning images rather than text. Send a prompt and get an image back, or send an image with an instruction and get it changed. One model does both, so you don't switch models to move from generating to editing.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe from Google is now available on AI Gateway for recorded and live audio: google/gemini-3.5-transcribe transcribes a complete audio file in one request. google/gemini-3.5-transcribe-live transcribes audio over a WebSocket and returns text as the audio arrives.
Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Qwen 3.8 Flash from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway. It takes text and images as input, serves a context window of 1 million tokens, and can return up to 65k tokens in a response. Alibaba recommends it for coding, tool use, and multi-step agent workflows.