Snowflake and OpenAI announced a multi-year partnership valued at about US$200 million to make OpenAI models natively available in Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence across major clouds, the company said on 2 February 2026.
Data platforms are racing to host frontier models next to governed enterprise tables. Buyers still need residency guarantees, cost controls and proof that agents cannot exfiltrate sensitive rows.
Snowflake frames Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence as the place to build enterprise agents without exporting data. The deal also covers joint solution development and go-to-market.
Data platform owners should insist on tenant-level audit and spend evidence on their own workloads — before treating any model-partnership headline as a completed enterprise AI architecture.