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Update Summary
Grok 4.6 is now available in Preview on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The release also adds stateful processing in BigQuery continuous queries, a synthetic data generator for Managed Service for Kafka, and faster Dataflow pipeline updates.
Update Details
New Features
- Grok 4.6 Preview is available in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with reasoning, function calling, structured output, and text/image input.
- BigQuery continuous queries now support stateful processing, including JOINs, aggregations, and windowing functions.
- Managed Service for Kafka now includes a synthetic data generator tool for quickly sending mock data to a cluster.
- Dataflow pipeline updates now support stop-and-replace, parallel pipeline migration, and drain timeouts.
Hints
- Grok 4.6 joins Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.20 in Model Garden and becomes the flagship Grok model.
- The BigQuery continuous queries feature is in Preview and feedback can be sent to bq-continuous-queries-feedback@google.com.
- The synthetic data generator for Managed Service for Kafka is generally available.
- Dataflow pipeline updates with stop-and-replace, parallel pipeline, and drain timeout are generally available.
Product Information
Vendor: Google
Product: Cloud
Product type: Other
Platform: Web
Vendor release date: Aug 24, 2026
Original release notes: View on vendor site
Published on updatealert.io: Aug 29, 2026
Description: Cloud platform for compute, data, networking, and developer services.