AI Agents in Healthcare: 3 Snowflake Summit Takeaways
Snowflake unveiled new CoWork capabilities at its 2026 Summit, adding Cortex Sense for 83%‑accurate answers across siloed healthcare data, an Async Agent API for continuous monitoring, and personalized, governed workflows that operate inside existing tools. The platform’s Horizon governance layer now offers built‑in HIPAA‑compliant security and audit controls. Sanofi showcased a real‑world deployment, using Snowflake and Elementum to create an AI‑driven sales concierge that pulls from unified clinical, commercial, and operational data. Snowflake also outlined a four‑component blueprint—data, models, applications, and control plane—to scale trusted agentic AI across the life‑sciences sector.
Hybrid Tables Just Got Up to 8x Faster
Snowflake announced a major performance upgrade for its Hybrid Tables, delivering up to 8× higher point‑lookup throughput and up to 10× faster bulk inserts. The enhancements also eliminate request‑credit billing, cutting Hybrid Table costs by as much as 40%. Benchmarks...
Announcing Claude Fable 5 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Snowflake announced that Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model is now available in private preview on its Cortex AI platform. The Mythos‑class model adds deeper reasoning, stronger code generation, and adjustable effort levels for multi‑step, agentic workflows. Integrated across Snowflake CoWork,...
LGND AI Is the 2026 Snowflake Startup Challenge Winner
LGND AI won the 2026 Snowflake Startup Challenge by showcasing its Large Earth Models (LEMs) trained on 800 petabytes of satellite imagery. The startup leverages Snowflake’s data‑warehousing services—Snowpipe, Dynamic Tables, and Cortex Search—to deliver image‑grounded answers for queries like Amazon deforestation....
OpenAI and Snowflake: The Future of Business-Native AI
Snowflake and OpenAI have operationalized a $200 million partnership that embeds OpenAI’s frontier models directly into Snowflake’s Cortex AI platform. The three‑layer architecture—Snowflake’s agentic control plane, OpenAI’s intelligence layer, and AWS’s AI foundation—delivers governed, context‑rich AI without altering existing cloud security...
Defending Your Enterprise at the Speed of AI
Snowflake unveiled an AI‑driven security posture management suite that lets administrators detect, prioritize, and remediate risks through natural‑language commands, eliminating the need for SQL expertise. The offering expands the Trust Center into an AI‑native, single‑pane‑of‑glass console and adds features such...
Snowflake for AI: Put Enterprise AI to Work
Snowflake unveiled a suite of AI enhancements under its Snowflake CoWork and Cortex platforms, aimed at delivering enterprise‑grade, governed machine‑learning at lower cost and higher speed. New features include a Feature Store that can serve online features in 10 ms with...
Snowflake CoCo: AI Coding Agent for the Modern Data Stack
Snowflake unveiled CoCo, an AI‑coding agent that now runs as a full development platform. New Cloud Agents let each Snowsight session spin up isolated containers, enabling CLI‑style work from any browser, while CoCo Desktop brings the same capabilities to Windows...
Set the Foundation for Trusted AI
Snowflake unveiled a suite of new capabilities aimed at unifying analytics, transactional, and AI workloads under a single governed platform. Adaptive Compute, now generally available, delivers up to 3.5Ă— faster DML processing and dynamic scaling without manual tuning. Interactive Analytics...
The Metadata Hub: Unify Your Data Estate
Snowflake is positioning its Horizon Catalog as a Metadata Hub that federates metadata across disparate data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS Glue, Databricks Unity Catalog, and Apache Polaris. The hub relies on open standards like Apache Iceberg and the Iceberg...
Insights From Slalom: Federal Agencies Should Reconsider Snowflake as a Cloud Data Platform
Slalom urges federal agencies to revisit Snowflake as a cloud data platform amid accelerating AI adoption, tighter budgets, and the Trump administration’s push for commercial‑off‑the‑shelf solutions. Snowflake’s pay‑for‑usage model, FedRAMP High authorization, and strong presence in financial services make it...
Announcing Claude Opus 4.8 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Snowflake announced that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in public preview on its Cortex AI platform. The model can be accessed through Cortex Code, Agents, AI Functions, Inference and Snowflake Intelligence, all within Snowflake’s secure, governed perimeter. Opus 4.8 introduces...
Retail Predictive Analytics for Like-for-Like Growth
Retailers are moving from price‑driven growth to disciplined like‑for‑like volume expansion as tariffs and higher operating costs erode margins. The new normal demands continuous intelligence that links boardroom strategy to shop‑floor execution, using AI to optimize store layouts, inventory, and...
How We Used Cortex Code to Turn Finance Variance Analysis Into a Live, Intelligent Workflow
Snowflake’s Cortex Code (CoCo) enabled a finance team to replace a static Excel budget‑vs‑actual workbook with a live, AI‑enhanced dashboard in weeks. The app pulls actuals directly from Snowflake, auto‑refreshes, and provides AI‑generated variance commentary that analysts can review rather...
Agentic AI in Financial Services: How Nasdaq eVestment Drives Faster Investment Insights
Nasdaq eVestment has launched an agentic AI solution, the “Next Best Action” agent, built on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, to deliver near‑real‑time, AI‑ready institutional data for asset managers. The agent combines a proprietary scoring model with Snowflake Cortex AI to...