Snowflake and OpenAI have signed a multi-year, 200 million partnership that brings OpenAI frontier intelligence into Snowflake’s platform, including Snowflake Cortex Artificial Intelligence and Snowflake Intelligence. Snowflake positions itself as a data and Artificial Intelligence platform used by 12,600+ companies to build, use, and share data, applications, and Artificial Intelligence, with an Artificial Intelligence Data Cloud focused on intuitive use, collaboration, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Under the agreement, OpenAI is described as one of the key model capabilities within Snowflake, making its advanced models directly accessible inside customer data environments.
Snowflake customers can use OpenAI models such as GPT‑5.2 with tools like Snowflake Cortex Artificial Intelligence to build custom applications and agents grounded in their own enterprise data. Within Snowflake Intelligence, users can ask questions in natural language and receive insights without writing any code, as the system automatically retrieves and analyzes business data. Executives from both companies emphasize that bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data on Snowflake’s secure and governed platform enables organizations to build Artificial Intelligence agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy, closing the gap between Artificial Intelligence capabilities and business value. With Snowflake Cortex Artificial Intelligence Functions, teams can call OpenAI models directly from SQL to analyze rows and columns, text, images, or audio, turning Artificial Intelligence into a natural extension of the language many data professionals already use.
The partnership is framed as a way to accelerate enterprise Artificial Intelligence adoption by applying powerful reasoning, analysis, and multimodal intelligence directly to trusted data at greater scale worldwide. Snowflake serves customers across financial services, healthcare, retail, media, manufacturing, and the public sector, and early adopters such as Canva and WHOOP describe using Snowflake and OpenAI together to scale visual Artificial Intelligence offerings, manage and activate data securely, and enhance Cortex Agents with advanced reasoning while maintaining strict governance. Looking ahead, Snowflake and OpenAI teams plan to collaborate on new features that leverage OpenAI Apps SDK, AgentKit, and APIs for shared enterprise workflows, while Snowflake continues to use ChatGPT Enterprise internally to speed decision-making and streamline collaboration. The relationship extends OpenAI’s work with large enterprises including Accenture, Walmart, PayPal, Intuit, Target, Thermo Fisher, BNY, Morgan Stanley, and BBVA, and is set against the backdrop of more than 1 million business customers around the world directly using OpenAI.
