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Snowflake Cortex AI

Enterprise-grade generative AI on your Snowflake data

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What Is Snowflake Cortex AI?

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Snowflake Cortex AI is an integrated AI and machine learning platform built into the Snowflake Data Cloud, designed to run generative AI workloads securely where your data already lives. It provides curated large language models, vector search, and AI services so teams can build chatbots, copilots, and analytics assistants without moving or copying data.

Data and engineering teams can use familiar tools like SQL and Snowpark to access models, orchestrate pipelines, and operationalize AI at scale. The platform emphasizes governance, performance, and cost control, helping enterprises maintain security and compliance while experimenting with AI.

Common use cases include:

Customer support automation and intelligent self-service
Document summarization and knowledge retrieval on governed data
Operational analytics and AI-driven decision support across business functions

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Snowflake Cortex AI brings powerful generative AI and ML directly to the data you already manage in the Snowflake Data Cloud, removing the need for complex integrations and risky data movement. Teams can rapidly build secure AI applications while maintaining enterprise governance, performance, and cost controls.

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API Availability: Snowflake Cortex AI has an API available.
Key Features: Run generative AI directly on governed data

Use curated LLMs with SQL and Snowpark

Scale secure AI apps in Snowflake Cloud
Audience: data engineers

data scientists

analytics teams

enterprise IT leaders

software developers

business intelligence teams
URL: https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/cortex

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Key Features of Snowflake Cortex AI

Built-in LLM access

Provides a curated set of high-performance large language models accessible directly from Snowflake so teams can power generative AI use cases without external model hosting.

Vector search

Offers vector search capabilities on data stored in Snowflake, enabling semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge-intensive applications.

SQL and Snowpark integration

Lets data and engineering teams invoke models, build pipelines, and integrate AI into workflows using familiar SQL and Snowpark APIs.

Enterprise governance

Keeps AI workloads inside Snowflake’s security and governance framework, helping organizations maintain control over sensitive and regulated data.

Scalable AI operations

Designed to operationalize AI at scale on the Snowflake Data Cloud, aligning performance and cost controls with existing data infrastructure.

Use Cases for Snowflake Cortex AI

Customer support automation

Build generative AI–powered support assistants that answer questions using governed customer and knowledge base data stored in Snowflake, reducing handle time while preserving data security.

Document summarization

Summarize large volumes of documents, reports, or contracts directly in the Snowflake Data Cloud using built-in LLMs, without exporting sensitive content to external systems.

Analytics copilots

Create analytics assistants that understand business data in Snowflake and help users explore metrics, generate insights, and ask natural language questions on governed datasets.

Operational analytics

Combine ML and generative AI to analyze operational data in real time within Snowflake, supporting better forecasting, anomaly detection, and data-driven decision-making.

Enterprise knowledge search

Use vector search and LLMs to power semantic search experiences over enterprise data stored in Snowflake, improving discovery of relevant information for internal teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Snowflake Cortex AI?

Snowflake Cortex AI is Snowflake’s built-in AI and machine learning suite that lets organizations run generative AI and vector search workloads directly on governed data in the Snowflake Data Cloud.

How does Snowflake Cortex AI handle data security?

Cortex AI runs within the Snowflake Data Cloud, so data stays inside Snowflake’s existing security and governance perimeter instead of being copied or moved to external AI services.

Do I need to move my data to use Snowflake Cortex AI?

No. A key benefit of Snowflake Cortex AI is that it lets you apply generative AI and ML directly to data already stored and governed in Snowflake, reducing data movement and integration overhead.

Which teams benefit most from Snowflake Cortex AI?

Data engineers, data scientists, analytics teams, software developers, and IT leaders benefit by using familiar SQL and Snowpark to build AI applications on top of existing Snowflake data.

What use cases can I build with Snowflake Cortex AI?

Organizations use Snowflake Cortex AI to build chatbots, copilots, analytics assistants, customer support automation, document summarization, and operational analytics solutions on governed enterprise data.

How is Snowflake Cortex AI priced?

Specific pricing details are not provided in the available materials and are likely tied to Snowflake Data Cloud usage. Contact Snowflake or review official documentation for current pricing.