Snowflake Doubles Down on AI Strategy: Bringing Models to Enterprise Data

At Snowflake's annual Summit, Christian Kleinerman, the Executive Vice President of Product, unveiled the company's latest innovations and provided insights into Snowflake's strategic approach to artificial intelligence (AI). A recurring theme throughout the conversation was Snowflake's commitment to bringing AI models directly to enterprise data, ensuring data governance and security remain top priorities. Addressing Regional Availability Challenges One of the key questions addressed the availability of Snowflake's AI platform, Cortex, across different regions. Kleinerman acknowledged that currently, Cortex is available with AWS in the Sydney and Tokyo regions. However, he emphasized the importance of cross-region calling capabilities, as cloud providers often lack larger GPUs like