Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) has announced a multi-year, $200 million collaboration with OpenAI to bring advanced AI models directly to enterprise data. The partnership makes OpenAI models, including GPT-5.2, natively available to Snowflake’s 12,600 global customers through Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling organizations to deploy AI agents across the enterprise securely and at scale.
The agreement aims to accelerate AI adoption, enhance workforce productivity, and deliver measurable business impact by combining Snowflake’s secure, governed data platform with OpenAI’s state-of-the-art AI models. Customers like Canva and WHOOP are already leveraging the collaboration to integrate advanced AI into their workflows.
AI Meets Enterprise Data with Governance
Snowflake Cortex AI enables every employee to access, query, and act on enterprise data using natural language. By bringing OpenAI models directly into this environment, organizations can:
- Build Custom AI Agents – Develop agents that reason over governed data and take actions across apps and workflows.
- Democratize Insights – Use GPT-5.2 to extract insights from structured and unstructured data without coding.
- Accelerate Product Innovation – Leverage OpenAI Apps SDK, AgentKit, and APIs for shared enterprise workflows.
- Ensure Governance and Reliability – Maintain secure, compliant operations with 99.99% uptime and integrated responsible AI controls.
- Gain Multimodal AI Insights – Analyze text, images, audio, and structured data seamlessly with SQL or natural language queries.
Snowflake and OpenAI Driving Practical AI
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, emphasized: “Customers can harness all their enterprise knowledge together with the intelligence of OpenAI models, enabling AI agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy.”
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, added: “This partnership brings our advanced models directly into enterprise data, helping businesses close the gap between AI’s potential and real-world value.”
Enterprise customers see tangible benefits:
- Canva uses Snowflake and OpenAI to scale visual AI offerings and test new creative tools rapidly.
- WHOOP integrates Cortex AI agents with OpenAI models to enhance real-time data-driven decision-making while maintaining governance and security.
Partnership Highlights
This first-party partnership cements joint go-to-market strategies and co-innovation, combining Snowflake’s secure, scalable AI Data Cloud with OpenAI’s cutting-edge models. It also strengthens responsible AI deployment, ensuring enterprises can adopt AI at scale without compromising compliance, governance, or performance.
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, Snowflake and OpenAI aim to redefine enterprise AI, empowering organizations to harness their data and models in concert, build AI-driven workflows, and unlock measurable ROI at scale.
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