Snowflake Partners with Anthropic to Integrate Claude AI Models into Data Cloud Platform

Snowflake and Anthropic Partner to Bring Claude Models to AI Data Cloud

The partnership aims to close the generative AI readiness gap for enterprises. Data analytics provider Snowflake raised its annual product revenue forecast last Wednesday and said it has teamed up with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic to enhance its cloud services. Snowflake has entered into a multi-year partnership with Anthropic to empower enterprises with advanced AI capabilities. This partnership will integrate Anthropic's newest Claude 3.5 models into Snowflake's Cortex AI platform, enabling businesses to securely develop and deploy cutting-edge AI products and workflows. Snowflake's Cortex AI is a fully managed AI service that provides a suite of generative AI features on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additionally, Snowflake's agentic AI products, including Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Analyst, will leverage Claude as one of the key large language models (LLMs) powering these experiences, the companies announced. Also Read: Amazon Invests USD 4 Billion More in Anthropic, Expands AI Partnership Claude 3.5 will enhance Snowflake's AI services, such as Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Analyst, enabling conversational data assistants, coding copilots, and unstructured data analytics. The integration combines Claude's reasoning and problem-solving capabilities with Snowflake's governance and security framework, allowing enterprises to unlock even more value from their data. "This gives enterprises the choice to build cutting-edge AI applications using the model of their choice with the ease, built-in security, and governance of the Snowflake platform. The cost efficiency, flexibility, and extensibility we deliver are why iconic brands like Accor, Chipotle, Comcast, Hyatt, Kraft Heinz, NBC Universal, Sanofi, Toyota, and thousands more are betting their business on Snowflake. As we move forward, we have a big opportunity to continue to expand with AI throughout the data journey," Snowflake's CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said during the Q3 FY25 earnings call. "Our partnership with Anthropic represents a massive leap forward in expanding on our promise to provide thousands of global customers with easy, efficient, and trusted AI for a holistic set of enterprise use cases," said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product at Snowflake. "By bringing Anthropic's industry-leading models to customers' enterprise data where it already lives, within the security and governance boundaries of the AI Data Cloud, we will unleash new ways for businesses to harness this data for agentic use cases, coding assistants, document chatbots, unstructured data analytics, and more." "With Claude, we're turning breakthrough AI research into powerful and trusted tools that businesses can use today, while maintaining robust standards of safety and reliability," said Michael Gerstenhaber, Vice President of Product at Anthropic. "AI is opening new possibilities for how teams create insights from data," said Barry McCardel, Co-founder and CEO of Hex. "Our Magic AI features make it easy for users to use natural language to ask questions, get answers, and make better decisions -- and with Anthropic's Claude coming to Snowflake Cortex AI, customers can now back these features with the most advanced models, served from their existing Snowflake environments with advanced security and governance." Also Read: Anthropic, Palantir, and AWS Partner to Bring Claude AI Models to US Defense Operations Snowflake cited a recent MIT Technology Review Insights report, Data Strategies for AI Leaders, which found that only 22 percent of respondents claim that their data foundations are "very ready" to support generative AI apps, an alarmingly small number given the massive potential of generative AI. This partnership aims to close the gap, providing enterprises with streamlined access to Claude's capabilities while ensuring compliance and data security, Snowflake said. By partnering with Anthropic, Snowflake will provide access to Anthropic's latest models so customers can build cutting-edge generative AI apps, copilots, agents, and more, the company said. Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet will be available on select AWS regions where Amazon Bedrock is available in the United States. With Claude 3.5 Sonnet, enterprises gain enhanced reasoning and natural human-like conversational abilities to power chatbots in Cortex AI, enabling users to interact with their enterprise data with ease, the company said. "As of the end of Q3, we have over a thousand deployed use cases, which you can think of as individual projects we manage with our customers of our AI and ML products in production deployments. More than 3,200 accounts are now using our AI and ML features," Ramaswamy added. Also Read: Mapbox, Snowflake, and Maxar Partner for Digital Twin Solution As a part of the multi-year partnership, Snowflake said it has also committed to using Claude as one of the key models powering its agentic AI offerings. Snowflake's enterprise AI products and chatbots will come optimised for Claude out-of-the-box, enabling users to reduce time-to-market and begin seeing value with industry-leading accuracy and scalability. Furthermore, Snowflake will deploy Claude for internal use cases, enabling Snowflake employees to immediately create high-quality agentic workflows. The Cortex Playground, now in public preview, lets businesses test and compare Claude alongside models from other providers, including AI21 Labs, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, Reka, and Voyage AI.

Snowflake Partners with Anthropic to Deliver AI Solutions for Enterprises

Per a study by MIT, only 22% of organisations are AI-ready; this partnership is an attempt to bridge that gap. Snowflake and Anthropic have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deliver AI capabilities to global enterprises. Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model will be integrated into Snowflake Cortex AI on AWS, enabling secure, scalable AI-driven workflows, conversational assistants, and generative analytics. The collaboration combines Claude's reasoning with Snowflake's data governance, powering AI products like Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Analyst for secure enterprise use. "Our partnership with Anthropic represents a massive leap forward in expanding on our promise to provide thousands of global customers with easy, efficient, and trusted AI for a holistic set of enterprise use cases," said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of product at Snowflake, emphasising how Anthropic's advanced models will empower businesses. Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet will initially launch in select AWS regions through Amazon Bedrock, offering enterprises enhanced reasoning, conversational capabilities, and secure deployment. Continuous model improvements by Anthropic will ensure high performance and cost efficiency, helping businesses unlock greater value from their data. Considering only 22% of organisations have reported that their data foundations are ready to support generative AI, this partnership bridges the gap, enabling quick and secure access to Anthropic's models for building AI applications like chatbots, agents, and analytics tools. "With Claude, we're turning breakthrough AI research into powerful and trusted tools that businesses can use today while maintaining robust standards of safety and reliability," said Michael Gerstenhaber, vice president of product at Anthropic. The partnership introduces Cortex Playground, a tool for enterprises to test and compare AI models like Anthropic's Claude within Snowflake's ecosystem. It ensures enhanced security and governance, with Claude operating within Snowflake's secure framework. Claude also powers advanced applications, enabling reliable AI driven workflows, chatbots, and tailored solutions for business needs. Claude is the foundational model for Snowflake's agentic AI products, enabling quick deployment for enterprise applications. Snowflake will also use Claude internally to improve workflows.

Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Soon after announcing its earnings for the third quarter of FY25, Snowflake dropped a bombshell: It is teaming up with leading AI vendor Anthropic to further advance AI projects for its customers. The data ecosystem giant has signed a multi-year strategic agreement, bringing Anthropic's Claude 3.5 family of models to its core platform on AWS. The move will allow enterprises using Snowflake to leverage the cutting-edge Claude large language models (LLMs) for building advanced AI applications, including conversational agents. The engagement will also power Snowflake's customer-facing agentic offerings as well as help the company's employees accelerate their internal workflows. The partnership comes as the latest in a series of efforts by Snowflake to provide enterprises with everything they need to develop secure and governed generative AI applications using their data hosted on the company's platform. Just recently, it even announced observability capabilities, enabling users to keep a close eye on the performance of the LLM applications they develop on their Snowflake instance. Interestingly, this strategy is similar to that of Databricks, Snowflake's biggest competitor, which also offers a range of open-source and proprietary models. In fact, the Ali Ghodsi-led company already allows customers (in its own way) to integrate proprietary external models, including those from Anthropic. Claude 3.5 family directly available on Snowflake Last year, Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy took over as the CEO of Snowflake, marking a new chapter of AI resurgence for the data company. It began dropping new AI capabilities, allowing customers to not only accelerate their data workflows on the platform (like with text-to-SQL) but also enable powerful AI-based use cases. One such offering that made headlines last year was Cortex, a fully managed service to build LLM apps. Cortex provides enterprises using data cloud with a suite of AI building blocks, including multiple LLMs, to analyze data they have on the platform - with the same security and privacy of Snowflake - and build applications targeting different business-specific use cases. The company started with LLMs for specialized tasks such as sentiment analysis and soon had a roster of several open models, including those from Google, Meta and Mistral, and a few proprietary ones. Now, as the next step in this work, the company has partnered with Anthropic to bring its proprietary Claude 3.5 family of models to Cortex AI. The move is significant as it allows Snowflake's 10,000+ customers to power their gen AI app experiences with Claude's reasoning, planning and problem-solving. For instance, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the most intelligent model in the family, already outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro in key areas such as graduate-level reasoning, code generation, multilingual math and grade school math. These capabilities can come in very handy for agents aimed at analyzing data, running ad-hoc analytics, generating visualizations and executing other multi-step workflows. "By bringing Anthropic's industry-leading models to customers' enterprise data where it already lives, within the security and governance boundaries of the AI Data Cloud, we will unleash new ways for businesses to harness this data for agentic use cases, coding assistants, document chatbots, unstructured data analytics, and more," Christian Kleinerman, EVP of product at Snowflake, said in a statement. It's worth noting here that while Databricks already allows users to leverage the entire range of Claude models for gen AI application development, the company does not host the models directly in its platform. They are only available via a REST API. This partnership, on the other hand, ensures that Snowflake customers can access Claude models (just the latest 3.5 series) directly within their data cloud instance, right where their structured and unstructured datasets reside. "Snowflake's approach to AI is distinct in that we offer enterprises a unified, simple platform experience where everything just works and is available with Snowflake's security and governance perimeter. Compared to other vendors that require painstaking configurations, Snowflake customers save valuable time and money on administrative tasks so that they can spend it on what matters most: launching projects and products faster for end users," Harshal Pimpalkhute, principal product manager at Snowflake, told VentureBeat. Claude to power internal workflows too Beyond expanding the ecosystem of LLMs on Cortex AI, this partnership will also see Snowflake leveraging the Claude 3.5 family of models for its internal workflows and customer-facing products. For customer products, the company says it will use Claude as one of the key models powering its new agentic offerings, including recently-announced Snowflake Intelligence as well as Cortex Analyst. The products will be optimized for the new LLMs, which will drive faster access to downstream results with high levels of accuracy. "Claude's industry-leading accuracy and expansive context window make it an ideal fit to power Snowflake's agentic products such as Snowflake Intelligence, which enables enterprises to easily ask business questions across their enterprise data to unlock data-driven answers, and in just a few steps, create data agents that take action on those insights," Pimpalkhute said. As for internal use cases, the product manager noted that Snowflake employees will be using Claude models to create custom agentic workflows. The deployment hasn't happened yet, but the company soon hopes to leverage it as a way to increase employee efficiency, allowing them to focus on more high-value tasks. Currently, more than a thousand enterprises - over 10% of Snowflake's total customer base - use Cortex AI for developing gen AI applications. The addition of Anthropic's models to the service is expected to improve the value proposition of the company's data cloud, drawing more customers to it.

Snowflake Strikes Strategic Deal To Bring Anthropic's AI Models To Its AI Data Cloud

Snowflake also announces key acquisition that will add advanced data integration capabilities to the Snowflake cloud platform to support structured and unstructured data. AI data cloud company Snowflake has struck a multi-year strategic partnership with AI startup Anthropic under which Anthropic's Claude AI models will be available through Snowflake Cortex AI, the company's fully managed suite of AI services. Snowflake also said it is acquiring Datavolo, a developer of advanced data integration technology for developing "multimodal data pipelines." The acquisition is expected to make it easier to bring more types of data into the Snowflake platform for AI, data analytics and other tasks. The Anthropic and Datavolo announcements came just before Snowflake announced its fiscal 2025 third quarter results that included revenue of $942.1 million, up more than 28 percent from $734.2 million one year ago. That included $900.3 million in product revenue, a 29 percent gain year over year. [Related: Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024: The Biggest News] Snowflake said the alliance with Anthropic will enable enterprise customers to "develop and scale easy, efficient, and trusted AI products, apps, and workflows" powered by the Anthropic models. Through the deal with Anthropic the company's Claude models, including its latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, will be available to the Snowflake Cortex AI services that run on Amazon Web Services. Snowflake's agentic AI products, including Cortex Analyst and the recently announced Snowflake Intelligence. "This gives enterprises the choice to build cutting edge AI applications using the model of their choice with the ease [and] built-in security and governance of the snowflake platform [and] the cost efficiency, flexibility and extensibility we deliver," Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy (pictured) said during the earnings call Wednesday. By bringing Anthropic Claude models together with the Snowflake platform can better unlock the value of their data through conversational assistants and large-scale language processing, Snowflake said. "Claude's advanced language models will further enhance how data agents in Snowflake can deeply analyze data, run ad-hoc analytics, generate visualizations, and execute other multi-step workflows," Snowflake said in the Anthropic announcement. "In turn, Snowflake's Horizon Catalog's strong enterprise-grade compliance, security, privacy, discovery, and collaboration capabilities are natively integrated into Cortex AI -- so users can harness the latest Claude 3.5 models with granular access controls and governance guardrails, enabling them to deliver trustworthy AI with high-accuracy results." As part of the multi-year partnership, Snowflake has also committed to using Claude as one of the key models powering its agentic AI offerings. Snowflake's enterprise AI products and chatbots will come optimized for Claude out-of-the-box, so users can reduce time-to-market and begin seeing value with industry-leading accuracy and scalability. "Our partnership with Anthropic represents a massive leap forward in expanding on our promise to provide thousands of global customers with easy, efficient, and trusted AI for a holistic set of enterprise use cases," said Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake executive vice president of product, in a statement. "By bringing Anthropic's industry-leading models to customers' enterprise data where it already lives, within the security and governance boundaries of the AI Data Cloud, we will unleash new ways for businesses to harness this data for agentic use cases, coding assistants, document chatbots, unstructured data analytics, and more," Kleinerman said. Snowflake said the acquisition of Datavolo will help the company provide a simple way for data engineering teams to integrate all of their enterprise systems with Snowflake's AI data Cloud unified platform and use it for AI and ML tasks, applications, and data analytics. Datavolo provides a single platform for automating and managing both structured and unstructured data flows between various enterprise data sources. Its software is powered by Apache NiFi, secure data processing and distribution technology that was originally developed and then open-sourced by the National Security Agency. Once fully integrated into the Snowflake platform, Datavolo will form the basis of Snowflake's open and extensible connectivity platform for structured and unstructured data, allowing Snowflake to further its offering for data engineering workloads, the company said. Users will be able to replace the complexity and maintenance burden of single-use, point-to-point connectors with fast, flexible, reusable pipelines that allow unstructured and structured data to more seamlessly move from cloud and on-premises sources to Snowflake's AI Data Cloud, according to the company. Because Datavolo is widely used across federal government agencies and organizations, Snowflake said the acquisition is also expected to help the company grow its public sector business. Financial terms of the Datavolo acquisition were not disclosed. The Anthropic deal and Datavolo acquisition news comes a week after Snowflake unveiled a wave of new AI development and security capabilities at the company's Build 2024 virtual conference for developers. Topping the list of announcements was the Snowflake Intelligence platform, a low-code system for developing AI data agents through which business users can query their data using natural language and then take action based on the results. Snowflake is slated to be available soon for private preview. Snowflake also debuted at Build a number of additions to Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake ML that the company said makes it easier to build multimodal, conversational AI applications with more diverse data sources and native agent-based orchestration. And Snowflake added new threat prevention and security monitoring capabilities to the Snowflake Horizon Catalog.