Max.ai Analytics Assistant Release Notes - Version 25.06.0

Release Date: April 23, 2025

Introduction

We're excited to introduce Max.ai Analytics Assistant version 25.06, delivering powerful enhancements to skill development, data exploration, and visualization capabilities. This update brings greater transparency, more intuitive interfaces, and sophisticated tools that empower both technical and business users to unlock deeper insights from their data.

Key Improvements

Enhanced Code Skills Visibility

Intuitive File Navigation

Navigate your skill code through an intuitive directory tree. Easily expand folders and select individual files with a simple click.

Comprehensive Code Visibility

View file contents in a sophisticated code viewer. Access comprehensive logs and outputs for better diagnostics.
This visibility streamlines troubleshooting, enables smoother collaboration, and helps you refine your most complex capabilities with confidence.

Powerful Visual Layouts Creator

Next-Generation Layout System

Introducing our flexible, JSON-based approach that transforms how you create and manage visual outputs. Replaces the legacy XML-based layout engine with a more powerful and maintainable system.

Versatile Layout Options

Design pixel-perfect, brand-matched visualizations with intuitive tools. Choose between Canvas layouts (perfect for presentations) or Document layouts (ideal for responsive outputs).

Component-Based Architecture

Leverage reusable components with simple, declarative configuration. Structure content elegantly with Flex and Card containers. Customize components through a user-friendly Properties panel or advanced JSON editing.

The Visual Layouts empower skill developers to create polished, professional outputs without writing raw HTML, dramatically improving both the development experience and the end-user visual experience.

Connection-Level SQL Explorer

Direct SQL Interface

Write custom SQL queries in a dedicated editor. Execute with a single click and see results instantly in the results panel.

Versatile Use Cases

Explore raw data before building skills, troubleshoot metrics issues, or run ad-hoc analysis outside normal workflows.
This powerful exploration tool streamlines your workflow from data investigation to insight implementation.

Dataset-Level SQL Explorer

Natural Language to SQL

Ask questions about your datasets in plain English. Watch as Max translates natural language into SQL and executes queries.

Multi-Perspective Results

Review insights through multiple perspectives: data tables, visualizations, SQL code, and explanations. Save successful examples to refine Max's understanding of your specific data.

This intuitive interface democratizes data access, enabling team members of all technical backgrounds to extract valuable insights directly.

New Data Explorer Skill

Conversational Data Analysis

Ask questions about your datasets in plain English directly within chat conversations. Receive comprehensive responses with automatically generated SQL running behind the scenes.

Transparent Results

View results through multiple perspectives: visualizations, data tables, SQL code, and plain-language explanations.

The Data Explorer skill makes data analysis conversational, allowing anyone in your organization to get answers from your data without leaving their chat interface or needing SQL expertise.

Enhanced Snowflake Authentication

Enterprise-Grade Security

Key Pair Authentication support for enterprise-grade security. Recommended approach for enterprise security requirements.

Streamlined Configuration

Simplified configuration interface for easier setup and management.

This enhancement ensures your Snowflake connections maintain the highest security standards while simplifying the authentication process.

New LLM API Configuration Purpose

Two new specialized API configuration purposes extend Max's capabilities:

SQL purpose for optimized text-to-SQL translations
Researcher purpose for upcoming advanced research capabilities

These purpose-specific configurations allow for fine-tuned model selection to maximize performance for specialized tasks.

SDK Skill Memory Capabilities

Enhanced State Management

Skill developers now have access to new memory persistence capabilities that enable sophisticated, context-aware skills to maintain state across interactions.

Practical Applications

These capabilities unlock powerful new skill patterns:

Cache results from prior runs for more efficient handling of follow-up questions
Create multi-turn interactions where skills can pause, ask clarifying questions, and resume processing when users reply

Other Improvements

Performance Improvements

We've made significant optimizations throughout the platform:

Chat streaming performance enhancements for more responsive conversations
Query Browser performance improvements for faster data access

These improvements ensure Max delivers insights faster and more reliably than ever before.

Tested Models

This release has been tested with the following models to ensure compatibility and stability:

OpenAI:

Chat: gpt-4o-2024-11-20
Narrative: gpt-4o-2024-11-20
Evaluations: gpt-4o-2024-11-20
Embedding: text-embedding-3-small

Gemini:

Chat: gemini-1.5-pro-002
Narrative: gemini-1.5-pro-002
Evaluations: gemini-1.5-pro-002
Embedding: models/embedding-001

Anthropic:

Chat: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022
Narrative: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022
Evaluations: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022
Embedding: Not Applicable