Databricks releases, every cloud

1. Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview)

   Replaces JSON with serialized KServe v2 ModelInferRequest. Requires endpoints deployed after July 9, 2026.

   #Machine Learning#Model Serving
   AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Jul 9, 2026
2. Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview

   Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, available in Public Preview.

   #Databricks AI#Model Serving
   AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(not on this cloud) May 5, 2026
3. Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta

   Supports 80B A3B Instruct in us-west-2 and ap-northeast-1 regions via pay-per-token APIs.

   #Databricks AI#Model Serving
   AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown) Oct 22, 2025
4. Admins can now manage a workspace's serverless base environments (Public Preview)

   Defines custom environment specs for serverless notebooks, allows setting a default for new notebooks.

   #Notebooks#Serverless
   AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 28, 2025

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