Why it matters: Google Cloud is moving analytics assistants beyond SQL explanation into model-backed analysis. The tweet names two concrete AI functions now reachable from chat: forecasting and anomaly detection.
Google Cloud Tech highlighted BigQuery’s autonomous embedding generation preview on April 10, 2026, positioning it as a way to keep vector data in sync without separate ETL glue. The documentation shows automatically maintained embedding columns backed by Vertex AI models, plus a preview built-in model path inside BigQuery.