https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/announcement-unity-ai-gateway-is-generally-available/m-p/164943#M973 <P><SPAN>Databricks has announced the </SPAN><STRONG>General Availability of Unity AI Gateway</STRONG><SPAN>, a unified way to govern AI spend, security, and model choice across agents, models, MCP servers, coding agents, skills, and tools.</SPAN></P> <P><FONT size="4"><STRONG>What’s new</STRONG></FONT></P> <UL> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>One control plane for AI</STRONG><SPAN>: Manage access, traffic, policies, and governance across Databricks-hosted and external AI services without locking teams into one provider or framework.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Clearer AI cost management</STRONG><SPAN>: Track usage and attribute spend across users, teams, applications, models, and providers, while setting budgets, alerts, and usage controls.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Runtime guardrails and policies</STRONG><SPAN>: Inspect and control prompts, responses, agent actions, and tool calls to help protect sensitive data and enforce business rules.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Open model and tool choice</STRONG><SPAN>: Connect models, coding agents, MCP servers, and AI tools through a governed layer, making it easier to adopt new options as they become available.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Smart Routing in Beta</STRONG><SPAN>: Route requests across models based on factors such as quality, cost, performance, availability, and budget to help teams get more value from their AI spend.</SPAN></LI> </UL> <P class="p8i6j01 paragraph"><A style="background-color: #ff3621; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold; display: inline-block;" href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/unity-ai-gateway-generally-available?utm_source=bambu&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=advocacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":backhand_index_pointing_right:">👉</span> Read the full post here </A></P> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:52:12 GMT Tushar_Parekar 2026-08-05T13:52:12Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/announcement-unity-ai-gateway-is-generally-available/m-p/164943#M973 <P><SPAN>Databricks has announced the </SPAN><STRONG>General Availability of Unity AI Gateway</STRONG><SPAN>, a unified way to govern AI spend, security, and model choice across agents, models, MCP servers, coding agents, skills, and tools.</SPAN></P> <P><FONT size="4"><STRONG>What’s new</STRONG></FONT></P> <UL> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>One control plane for AI</STRONG><SPAN>: Manage access, traffic, policies, and governance across Databricks-hosted and external AI services without locking teams into one provider or framework.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Clearer AI cost management</STRONG><SPAN>: Track usage and attribute spend across users, teams, applications, models, and providers, while setting budgets, alerts, and usage controls.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Runtime guardrails and policies</STRONG><SPAN>: Inspect and control prompts, responses, agent actions, and tool calls to help protect sensitive data and enforce business rules.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Open model and tool choice</STRONG><SPAN>: Connect models, coding agents, MCP servers, and AI tools through a governed layer, making it easier to adopt new options as they become available.</SPAN></LI> <LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><STRONG>Smart Routing in Beta</STRONG><SPAN>: Route requests across models based on factors such as quality, cost, performance, availability, and budget to help teams get more value from their AI spend.</SPAN></LI> </UL> <P class="p8i6j01 paragraph"><A style="background-color: #ff3621; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold; display: inline-block;" href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/unity-ai-gateway-generally-available?utm_source=bambu&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=advocacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":backhand_index_pointing_right:">👉</span> Read the full post here </A></P> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:52:12 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/announcement-unity-ai-gateway-is-generally-available/m-p/164943#M973 Tushar_Parekar 2026-08-05T13:52:12Z