Snowflake announces $200m partnership with OpenAI for enterprise AI

Snowflake has entered into a $200m concern with OpenAI to integrate the latter’s artificial quality (AI) models into Snowflake’s endeavor information platform.

The multi-year statement volition let much than 12,000 Snowflake customers worldwide to entree OpenAI models specified arsenic GPT-5.2 straight wrong Snowflake Cortex AI crossed each large unreality providers.

Both companies program to collaborate connected processing tailored AI solutions for shared endeavor clients, focusing connected deploying AI agents that alteration organisations to analyse and utilise their proprietary information done earthy connection queries.

The concern besides involves associated efforts to present caller features utilising OpenAI’s Apps SDK, AgentKit, and APIs to heighten endeavor workflows.

Enterprises volition beryllium capable to make customisable AI agents that run connected governed information and execute actions crossed antithetic tools and applications.

These agents volition tally securely wrong the Cortex AI environment, allowing businesses to analyse structured and unstructured information utilizing acquainted technologies similar SQL.

Snowflake has committed to maintaining its governance standards, with built-in concern continuity and catastrophe betterment measures supported by a 99.99% uptime service-level agreement.

Customers volition entree OpenAI’s capabilities alongside their ain information portion benefiting from Snowflake Horizon Catalog's liable AI controls.

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said: “By bringing OpenAI models to endeavor data, Snowflake enables organisations to physique and deploy AI connected apical of their astir invaluable plus utilizing the secure, governed level they already trust.

“Customers tin present harness each their endeavor cognition successful Snowflake unneurotic with the world-class quality of OpenAI models, enabling them to physique AI agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy.”

The collaboration builds upon erstwhile enactment betwixt the firms, including OpenAI’s usage of Snowflake for experimentation tracking, analytics, and testing, arsenic good arsenic Snowflake’s interior adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise for worker productivity.

OpenAI Applications CEO Fidji Simo said: “This concern brings our precocious models straight into that environment, making it easier to deploy AI agents and apps, truthful businesses tin adjacent the spread betwixt what AI is susceptible of and the worth they tin make today.”

In a related development, OpenAI has launched a desktop exertion for its coding instrumentality Codex, aiming to vie successful the AI code-generation sector.

The Codex app facilitates the absorption of aggregate AI agents implicit extended periods and tin usage codification to cod and process information.