Connect and govern any external model provider

UpdateJul 17, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Connect and govern any external model provider (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, and newly released models like Meta's Muse Spark 1.1) through Unity Gateway. Register a provider once as a governed Unity Catalog securable, and every team can query it through Unity Gateway with full governance and observability.

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