The following functions are now generally available (GA) AI.EMBED
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## Feature
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The following functions are now[generally available](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages)(GA):
* [AI.EMBED](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-embed): create embeddings from text or image data.
* [AI.SIMILARITY](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-ai-similarity): compute the semantic similarity between pairs of text, pairs of images, or across text and images.
## Feature
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You can clean, transform, and enrich data from files in Cloud Storage and Google Drive in your BigQuery data preparations. For more information, see[Prepare data with Gemini](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/data-prep-get-suggestions#open-data-prep-editor). This feature is [generally available](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages)(GA).
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Custom classifier models pretrained-classifier-v1.6-2026-03-09 and pretrained-classifier-v1.6-pro-2026-03-09
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Regional and Multi-Regional endpoints for the Datastore API are now Generally Available (GA)
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Regional and Multi-Regional endpoints for the Firestore API are now Generally Available (GA)
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