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Google Cloud Updates: Grok 4.6 Preview, BigQuery Stateful, SAP BDC Integration

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Google Cloud announced a new batch of updates, highlighting the preview of xAI's Grok 4.6 model on its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, supporting advanced agentic workflows. Key data features include the preview of stateful processing for BigQuery continuous queries, enabling real-time analytics with JOINs and windowing functions, and a generally available synthetic data generator for Managed Service for Kafka. Other significant updates reaching general availability are faster, more flexible Dataflow pipeline updates, AI-assisted PostgreSQL migrations in Database Migration Service powered by Gemini, and SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery, which offers zero-copy data sharing. These enhancements aim to boost AI capabilities, real-time data processing, migration efficiency, and enterprise data integration for developers and architects.

  • →Grok 4.6 now available in Preview on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
  • →Stateful processing for BigQuery continuous queries in Preview
  • →Synthetic data generator tool for Managed Service for Kafka generally available
  • →AI-assisted PostgreSQL migrations in Database Migration Service with Gemini
  • →SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery now generally available
Features (5) ›
  • Grok 4.6 now available in Preview on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

    xAI's Grok 4.6 model is now available in Preview on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, becoming the flagship of the Grok family alongside Grok 4.3 and 4.20 in Model Garden. It supports advanced capabilities like reasoning, function calling, and structured output for multi-step agentic workflows, accepting both text and image input.

  • Stateful processing for BigQuery continuous queries in Preview

    BigQuery continuous queries now support stateful operations in Preview, allowing users to leverage functions such as JOINs, aggregations, and windowing directly within streaming queries. This enables calculations like 30-minute averages over time to power real-time signals for downstream applications and AI agents.

  • Synthetic data generator tool for Managed Service for Kafka generally available

    A new synthetic data generator tool is now generally available for Managed Service for Kafka, enabling users to quickly produce mock data to their clusters with minimal setup. It streamlines testing of new clusters and features by sending data streams in under two minutes with three clicks.

  • AI-assisted PostgreSQL migrations in Database Migration Service with Gemini

    Database Migration Service (DMS) now includes AI-assisted code conversion powered by Gemini in Databases to accelerate PostgreSQL migrations. It helps translate legacy stored procedures, triggers, and custom functions from Oracle or SQL Server into native PostgreSQL or AlloyDB, combining compiler rules with Gemini contextual synthesis.

  • SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery now generally available

    SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connect for BigQuery is now generally available, introducing zero-copy, bi-directional data sharing between SAP systems and Google Cloud's data and AI ecosystem. This capability eliminates data silos and reduces costs and complexity for moving mission-critical SAP data into analytics platforms.

Enhancements (1) ›
  • Faster and more flexible Dataflow pipeline updates now generally available

    Dataflow pipeline updates now offer stop-and-replace functionality alongside existing in-place updates, with a new parallel pipeline option to accelerate migrations and reduce disruption. Users can also set timeouts on drains to prevent runaway costs from stuck processing.

Read the original announcement →

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/whats-new-google-cloud/

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