New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
May 18, 2026Confluent Staff

Summary
The Real-Time Context Engine is now generally available with enhanced querying capabilities including filters, ranges, compound queries, projections, and ordering directly on live tables, reducing reliance on external databases. Streaming Agents and the Agent Management Console are also now generally available, offering production-ready, event-driven AI agents with enterprise-grade operations and a centralized UI. New ML functions for Multivariate Anomaly Detection (Open Preview), PII Detection (Early Access), and Sentiment Analysis (Early Access) have been introduced. Support for TimesFM (Early Access), Anthropic (GA), and Fireworks AI (GA) models has been added.
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