Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, announces its Snowday 2023 event new innovations that enable all users to securely tap into the power of generative AI with their enterprise data regardless of their technical expertise. Snowflake is simplifying how every organization can securely derive value from generative AI with Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake’s new fully managed service that enables organizations to more easily discover, analyze, and build AI apps in the Data Cloud.

Snowflake Cortex gives users instant access to a growing set of serverless functions that include industry-leading large language models (LLMs) such as Meta AI’s Llama 2 model, task-specific models, and advanced vector search functionality. Using these functions, teams can accelerate their analytics and quickly build contextualized LLM-powered apps within minutes.

As a fully managed service, Snowflake Cortex gives all customers the necessary building blocks to easily harness LLMs and AI, without the need for AI expertise or complex GPU-based infrastructure management. This includes a growing set of serverless functions available with a function call in SQL or Python code. Users of all skill sets can access these functions to quickly analyze data or build AI apps — all running in Snowflake Cortex’s cost-optimized infrastructure.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, SVP of AI, Snowflake says, “Snowflake is helping pioneer the next wave of AI innovation by providing enterprises with the data foundation and cutting-edge AI building blocks they need to create powerful AI and machine learning apps while keeping their data safe and governed."

 

"With Snowflake Cortex, businesses can now tap into the power of large language models in seconds, build custom LLM-powered apps within minutes, and maintain flexibility and control over their data — while reimagining how all users tap into generative AI to deliver business value," adds Ramaswamy.

Snowflake also unveiled advancements that make it easier for developers to build ML models and full-stack apps in the Data Cloud, enhancements to further eliminate data silos and strengthen Snowflake’s leading compliance and governance capabilities through Snowflake Horizon, and more at Snowday 2023.