Spice Cloud & Spice.ai Enterprise 1.7.0 are now live, bringing performance upgrades with DataFusion v49, real-time full-text search indexing, EmbeddingGemma support, and improvements across search, embeddings, and API integrations. Spice Cloud customers will automatically upgrade to v1.7.0 on deployment, while Spice.ai Enterprise customers can consume the Enterprise v1.7.0 image from the Spice AWS Marketplace listing.

Spice now runs on DataFusion v49, delivering lower latency and improved query optimization.

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DataFusion v49 highlights include:

Spice now supports EmbeddingGemma, Google’s latest embedding model for text and documents. It delivers high-quality embeddings for semantic search, retrieval, and recommendation tasks. Configure it directly in your Spicepod via HuggingFace.

Repeated embedding requests can now be cached in the Spice runtime. This reduces both latency and costs, with configurable cache size and TTL options. Check out the caching documentation for more details.

Full-text indexing now supports real-time changes from CDC streams such as Debezium. New events are searchable as they arrive, ensuring continuously fresh results.

The OpenAI Responses API in Spice now supports tool calls with streaming. Results from tools like web_search and code_interpreter are streamed as they’re generated, enabling more responsive agent and application experiences.

v1.7.0 includes numerous fixes and improvements:

We’ll walk through highlights of v1.7 live on our Release Community Call. Join us to see the new functionality in action and bring your questions! Register here.
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