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Snowflake Summit 2025, held in San Francisco, showcased Snowflake's intensified focus on AI capabilities, built upon a unified data foundation. Attracting approximately 20,000 attendees, the event underscored the company’s commitment to making AI and machine learning more accessible and actionable for a broad range of users. Key themes revolved around simplifying AI adoption, improving data interoperability (especially for unstructured and on-premises data), enhancing compute efficiency, embedding AI into data governance, and empowering developers with richer tooling.
Major announcements highlighted the expansion of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud's capabilities. Cortex AI was a central focus, with the introduction of Cortex AISQL, which embeds generative AI directly into queries to analyze diverse data types. This allows users to build flexible pipelines using SQL, marking a significant evolution in the intersection of AI and SQL across multimodal data. Another notable launch was SnowConvert AI, an automation solution designed to accelerate migrations from legacy platforms by automating code conversion, testing, and data validation, reportedly making these phases 2-3 times faster.
Snowflake also introduced Cortex Knowledge Extension which allows information providers to create a Cortex Search service over their content without copying or exposing the entire information corpus. This enables a "share without copying" model paid via Snowflake. Furthermore, Snowflake's acquisition of Crunchy Data, a provider of Postgres managed services, signals the growing importance of relational databases in supporting AI agents. These updates and acquisitions position Snowflake to meet the increasing demands of enterprises seeking to leverage AI for data-driven insights and operational efficiency.
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Major announcements highlighted the expansion of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud's capabilities. Cortex AI was a central focus, with the introduction of Cortex AISQL, which embeds generative AI directly into queries to analyze diverse data types. This allows users to build flexible pipelines using SQL, marking a significant evolution in the intersection of AI and SQL across multimodal data. Another notable launch was SnowConvert AI, an automation solution designed to accelerate migrations from legacy platforms by automating code conversion, testing, and data validation, reportedly making these phases 2-3 times faster.
Snowflake also introduced Cortex Knowledge Extension which allows information providers to create a Cortex Search service over their content without copying or exposing the entire information corpus. This enables a "share without copying" model paid via Snowflake. Furthermore, Snowflake's acquisition of Crunchy Data, a provider of Postgres managed services, signals the growing importance of relational databases in supporting AI agents. These updates and acquisitions position Snowflake to meet the increasing demands of enterprises seeking to leverage AI for data-driven insights and operational efficiency.
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- futurumgroup.com: Snowflake Summit ’25: Accelerating AI with Unified Data & Compute
- www.bigdatawire.com: Agentic AI Spurs Data Stack Updates at Snowflake Summit
Classification:
- HashTags: #AISolutions #CloudData #SnowflakeAI
- Company: Snowflake
- Target: Enterprises
- Product: Cortex AI
- Feature: Data Integration
- Type: AI
- Severity: Informative