Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are generally available

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Two new audio-to-audio Live API models target real-time voice apps: gemini-3.8-live for low-latency dialogue with asynchronous function calling, and gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking for high-reasoning voice use cases.

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Gemini APISep 17, 2026

Antigravity Agent 09-2026

Released antigravity-preview-09-2026, which replaces and deprecates antigravity-preview-05-2026. If you run on a remote sandbox (environment: "remote") and read only output_text or model_output steps, update the agent string and nothing else changes. If you run tools locally (local_environment) or parse function_call steps, the built-in tools changed.

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Gemini APISep 18, 2026

Gemini 2.5 models access update

To ensure reliable performance for everyone, we are limiting access to the 2.5 models to users who have actively used them in the past. These models are not deprecated and will continue to be served until further notice through the API. For any new projects, use our latest models: 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.

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Gemini APISep 22, 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) audio models and the Gemini API Voices endpoint (/v1beta/voices): Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-tts): Flagship creative TTS model engineered for studio-grade voice fidelity, nuanced acting, regional dialects, and long-form...

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Gemini APISep 3, 2026

Lyria 3.5 generally available (GA)

Released the next generation of Google's music generation model: lyria-3.5: Full-length song generation with improved musical coherence, natural vocals, and fine-grained duration and structural control. The model supports text and image inputs and generates high-fidelity 44.1 kHz stereo audio. See the Music generation guide for details and code samples.

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Gemini APISep 2, 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available (GA)

Released gemini-3.8-flash, our most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows. To get started, see the Gemini 3.8 Flash model page and the Latest model guide.

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Gemini APISep 1, 2026

Agentic video understanding

Released agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite across the Interactions and GenerateContent APIs. The model dynamically navigates video timelines, requesting transcripts, frames, or audio tracks on demand. This approach uses up to 88% fewer tokens for long-form content compared to static processing.

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Gemini APIAug 27, 2026

Gemini Omni Flash generally available (GA)

Released gemini-omni-1.1-flash, the GA version of our fast, conversational video generation and editing model. This release includes significant new capabilities: Video extension : Seamlessly extend existing videos by generating continuations at the end of a clip using the extend task or directly with a prompt.

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Gemini APIAug 26, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe generally available (GA)

Released two dedicated speech-to-text models based on Gemini's audio understanding: Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (gemini-3.5-transcribe): High-accuracy, low-latency non-streaming speech-to-text with utterance-based language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing (up to 1,000 terms).

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Snowflake SnowflakeSep 15, 2026

Predict dynamic table refresh behavior with EXPLAIN CHANGES (General availability)

You can now use EXPLAIN CHANGES to predict a dynamic table's refresh behavior before it happens, either for a manual refresh or as part of a DDL change, without applying the change.

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Snowflake Snowflake Horizon CatalogSep 15, 2026

Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview)

With this release, the Horizon Catalog Explorer is the default experience for browsing Snowflake objects in Snowsight, replacing Database Explorer. The Horizon Catalog Explorer provides consistent navigation and object detail pages while preserving the tabs and actions that you already use.

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Snowflake Snowflake Cortex AISep 15, 2026

Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability)

Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages is now generally available. You can render a container-runtime app inside a page you host, such as a customer portal or an internal dashboard, using a single tag.

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Snowflake SnowflakeSep 15, 2026

Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)

Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming are now generally available. Elastic Channels provide one implicit, server-scaled ingestion path per pipe, so concurrent producers can stream directly to Snowflake tables and supported Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables without managing channel names, lifecycle, ordering, or offset tokens.

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Databricks Databricks AppsSep 15, 2026

Webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will soon be generally available

Starting in October 2026, webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will be generally available. Automatically deploy your app when changes are pushed to a connected GitHub or Azure DevOps repository, so your deployed app stays in sync with your repository without manual redeployment. See Deploy a Databricks app .

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Databricks Unity CatalogSep 15, 2026

Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available

Sharing and reading foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Delta-format tables federated from OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue, without copying data into Databricks. See Add foreign Delta tables to a share .

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