Databricks releases, every cloud
- The Azure Databricks Excel Add-in is now generally available
Connects Excel to Azure Databricks workspace for querying and data import. Enables Live query for pivot tables.
- The Databricks Excel Add-in is now generally available
Connects Excel to Databricks workspace for querying and data import. Enables live query for pivot tables.
- AI Functions REST API is now generally available
Includes ai_parse_document, ai_extract, and ai_classify calls.
- Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available Coming soon
Requires account admins to set budgets and rate limits beforehand to control model traffic.
- ai_extract precision mode is now generally available
Supports multi-page documents and schemas with 50+ fields.
- Unity Gateway is now generally available
Controls AI service access and traffic, part of Unity Catalog, with some features still in Beta.
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- Budgets are now generally available
Define spending thresholds with optional per-user overrides and actions like email alerts.
- ai_query is now generally available
Lets you query AI models from SQL or Python.
- ai_classify is now generally available
Classifies text content according to custom labels with support for multi-label classification.
- ai_extract is now generally available
Extracts structured data from text and documents according to a provided schema. Supports nested objects and arrays.
- Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available
Persists OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics to Unity Catalog tables.
- Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available
Requires account team enablement, controls access to system.ai schema.
- ai_parse_document is now generally available
Parses structured content from unstructured documents, limited to 500 pages and 100 MB.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available
Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.
- Knowledge Assistant is now generally available
Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.
- OpenAI GPT 5 models are now generally available in Mosaic AI Model Serving
Includes GPT-5 mini and nano models.
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