Release 12.0

Release Date: January 8th, 2025

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New Feature	Improvement	Bug Fix	Enterprise Only

Pay-As-You-Go Plan

Status	Change	Details
	Introduced a simple, flexible Pay-As-You-Go plan	The new plan has no minimum monthly commitments and far fewer feature gates. Just prepay credits, build, and go. Additionally, the new plan comes with a one-time $5 welcome credit after verifying your phone number and auto-recharge capability. Learn more here.

Pipelines

Status	Change	Details
Public Preview	Introduced the ability to create, run, and manage pipelines via the Clarifai CLI	Clarifai Pipelines let you design and run asynchronous, long-running, multi-step processes for complex AI and MLOps tasks. Learn more here.

Multi-Nodepool Deployment

Status	Change	Details
	Introduced model routing capabilities	We support universal model routing to provide high availability and optimal load distribution across all model services. This allows intelligent routing logic across multiple model-serving nodepools, including spillover handling and routing across different data centers. Learn more here.

Vercel AI SDK Integration

Status	Change	Details
	Clarifai is now available as an inference provider in the Vercel AI SDK	You can use Clarifai-hosted models directly through the OpenAI-compatible interface in @ai-sdk/openai-compatible, with no changes to your application logic. Learn more here.

Published Models

Status	Change	Details
	Published two new reasoning models from the Ministral 3 family	Published Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning-2512, a compact model in the "Ministral 3" family. It delivers high-performance, open-weight capabilities while remaining efficient and deployable in realistic hardware settings. Published Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512, the largest model in the “Ministral 3” family. It delivers high-performance, open-weight capabilities close to much larger models while remaining efficient and deployable in realistic hardware settings.

Python SDK

Status	Change	Details
	Improved the Python SDK Learn more here	Fixed issues with local model runners Fixed checkpoint download failures when hf_transfer was not installed Resolved compatibility conflicts with the latest vLLM Added a comprehensive artifact management system for both the SDK and CLI Introduced interactive config.yaml creation during the model upload process Added Container and Env model support for local runners Added comprehensive test coverage for the MCPConnectionPool connection lifecycle Updated status codes and descriptions for model runner failure cases Prevented a TypeError during model version creation Fixed a runner ID bug affecting local runners Fixed user verification issues in the development environment Upgraded urllib3 to version >= 2.6.2 Added retry logic to OpenAI API calls and fixed related test mocks Fixed a TypeError when accelerator_type is None in config.yaml Improved local runner handling of duplicate runner ID errors Added CLARIFAI_HF_TOKEN to the CLI context Added tests for the local runner CLI command Removed automatic file generation during model operations

Platform

Status	Change	Details
	Made some improvements	Added cleaner filters in the Control Center, making charts more intuitive and easier to navigate. Improved the Team & Logs tab in the Control Center to ensure that today’s audit logs are included when selecting the last 7 days. Enabled stopping responses in the right panel when using the Playground’s Compare mode.
	Fixed some bugs	Fixed various signup and login bugs, resulting in a more reliable and smoother user experience. Fixed an issue in the mobile view of the Configure Home settings where enabling one option unexpectedly disabled another, causing inconsistent behavior. Fixed an issue where Predict and Generate methods produced an error in the Playground. Fixed an issue with the 6-month date range in the Control Center.