Key facts
- Major hubs include San Mateo, California, alongside the Bozeman headquarters.
- Ownership: Public — Nasdaq: SNOW.
- February 2026: strategic partnership with OpenAI involving about US$200m commitment.
- Named Cortex customer storytelling includes Booking.com modernising travel data and AI on Snowflake.
Focus areas
About
Snowflake is a public cloud data platform best known for the AI Data Cloud — a governed environment where organisations store, share and analyse structured and unstructured data. Cortex marketing emphasises calling industry LLMs from SQL or APIs, analysing multimodal data, and building agents without moving data outside Snowflake’s controls. Named customer storytelling on the Cortex product pages includes Booking.com. In early 2026 Snowflake publicised a large OpenAI collaboration. Leadership sits with Snowflake Inc. as a listed company; the buyer-relevant AI surface is Cortex — running LLMs, agents and multimodal analytics next to governed warehouse data rather than exporting sensitive datasets into a separate AI stack, with CoWork, CoCo and Cortex Agents as the named product surfaces.
How they use AI
Snowflake Cortex AI exposes serverless LLM functions and APIs so teams can run generative tasks — summarisation, classification, embedding, multimodal analysis — against data that already sits in Snowflake under existing role-based access. Cortex Agents orchestrate retrieval and synthesis across structured and unstructured sources. Snowflake CoWork is a personal work agent for knowledge workers that answers from enterprise data, runs cited research and acts in tools such as Slack, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce inside Snowflake governance. Snowflake CoCo (formerly Cortex Code) is a data-native coding agent for data engineering, analytics and AI workflows expressed in natural language. Cortex AI Functions (formerly Cortex AISQL) let analysts transform text, images and audio beside tables with familiar SQL. The architectural pitch is inference next to governed data with built-in policies, observability and guardrails rather than shipping copies to external notebooks.
Products and services
- Snowflake Cortex AI — LLMs, multimodal AI and gen-AI apps in the AI Data Cloud
- Cortex Agents — orchestrated agents over structured and unstructured data
- Snowflake CoWork — personal work agent for knowledge workers
- Snowflake CoCo (formerly Cortex Code) — data-native AI coding agent
- Cortex AI Functions / AISQL — multimodal generative tasks in SQL
- Cortex LLM Functions — serverless access to leading foundation models
Notable customers / partners
Key people
- Sridhar Ramaswamy — Chief Executive Officer
