Snowflake, the Data Cloud company announces Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. With its unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more.

In addition, Snowflake is releasing Arctic’s weights under an Apache 2.0 license and details of the research leading to how it was trained, setting a new openness standard for enterprise AI technology.

The Snowflake Arctic LLM is a part of the Snowflake Arctic model family; a family of models built by Snowflake that includes the best practical text-embedding models for retrieval use cases.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake says, “This is a watershed moment for Snowflake, with our AI research team innovating at the forefront of AI. By delivering industry-leading intelligence and efficiency in a truly open way to the AI community, we are furthering the frontiers of what open source AI can do."

“Our research with Arctic will significantly enhance our capability to deliver reliable, efficient AI to our customers,” Ramaswamy adds.

 

Yoav Shoham, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, AI21 Labs says, “Snowflake Arctic is poised to drive significant outcomes that extend our strategic partnership, driving AI access, democratization, and innovation for all.  We are excited to see Snowflake help enterprises harness the power of open source models, as we did with our recent release of Jamba — the first production-grade Mamba-based Transformer-SSM model. Snowflake’s continued AI investment is an important factor in our choosing to build on the Data Cloud, and we’re looking forward to continuing to create increased value for our joint customers.”