New feature
GA
Model services
Model services is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced June 2026.
A Unity Catalog securable that represents a governed LLM endpoint, so an endpoint is defined once and shared across workspaces through Unity Catalog privileges instead of being duplicated per workspace.
- It turns a model endpoint into a catalog object, which means GRANT is now a reasonable way to hand someone access to an LLM.
- Databricks pre-populates them for you in a schema literally called system.ai, so the hosted foundation models show up as governable objects without anyone creating anything.
- Within two months of launch they were pulled into attribute-based access control, where a policy can grant privileges to any model service whose governed tags match a condition.
Limitations: Model services cannot be created or managed with SQL, cannot be discovered with only the BROWSE privilege, and are not covered by global search.
Open in REbricked →- Category
- AI / ML
- Also known as
- model service, model API, model APIs, system.ai model services
- Verified
- 2026-09-06
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs
- Official Databricks docs: Govern model APIs (model services)
- Official Databricks release notes: Unity Gateway (then Unity AI Gateway) is now generally available (August 4, 2026)
- Official Databricks docs: model services named among the capabilities made generally available by the Unity Gateway GA
- Official Databricks docs: Unity Gateway is generally available, with service policies the beta capability enabled separately