December 11, 2024

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Feature

You can now replicate a dataset from the source region to one or more other regions with cross-region dataset replication. This feature is now generally available (GA).

Feature

BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery provides managed failover and redundant compute capacity for business-critical workloads. It is intended for use in the case of a total region outage and is supported with the BigQuery Enterprise Plus edition only. This feature is now generally available (GA).

Feature

You can now create
remote models
in BigQuery ML based on the
gemini-2.0-flash-exp
model in Vertex AI. To create remote models, you can use either SQL or BigQuery
DataFrames.

You can use the
ML.GENERATE_TEXT function
with these remote models to perform generative natural language tasks for text
stored in BigQuery tables. You can also
use the ML.GENERATE_TEXT function with these remote models to perform
generative AI tasks, for example audio transcription or document classification,
using image, video, audio, PDF, or text content stored in BigQuery
object tables.

Try this feature by using either the
Generate text by using the ML.GENERATE_TEXT function
how-to topic, or the
BigFrames Gemini 2.0 Text Generation Simple Example
notebook.

This feature is in
preview.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes#December_11_2024