Snowflake launched Snowflake Intelligence to general availability, outlined a set of new developer tools and forged a pact with SAP so Snowflake AI Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud are interoperable.
The company said Snowflake Intelligence, outlined at Snowflake Summit earlier this year, is now generally available. Snowflake said that Snowflake Horizon Catalog and Snowflake Openflow, also announced at Snowflake Summit, are also generally available.
Snowflake Intelligence is designed to create agents that can operate via natural language, leverage structured and unstructured data and accelerate AI and machine learning pipelines. Customers embedded in Snowflake Intelligence include Cisco, Fanatics, Toyota Motor Europe and Wolfspeed.
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According to Snowflake, prebuilt agents can be accessed through the Snowflake Intelligence interface or using Cortex Agents API. Cortex Agents orchestrate unstructured and structured data with LLMs including OpenAI GPT and Anthropic Claude.
Snowflake also outlined a suite of new development tools that feature a collaboration environment, open source integrations and data quality capabilities.
The developer tools include:
- Cortex Code in private preview. Cortex Code is a revamped AI assistant in the Snowflake interface and helps customers understand usage, optimizations and fine tuning.
- Enhancements to Snowflake Cortex AISQL, which is generally available. Developers can build AI pipelines in Snowflake Dynamic Tables.
- Snowflake Workspaces for collaboration and direct Git Integration and VS Code Integration.
Under the SAP-Snowflake partnership, the companies said Snowflake's data and AI platform will be available as an extension for SAP Business Data Cloud. SAP launched Business Data Cloud via a partnership with Databricks.
SAP and Snowflake will enable the following:
- Zero copy sharing between the two platforms.
- Data and AI teams can work within a unified governance framework and harmonize SAP and non-SAP data.
- Simplify AI governance, ground AI in enterprise knowledge bases and build tailored agents.
- Leverage semantically rich data.
- SAP Business Data Cloud can leverage Snowflake's AI, analytics, data engineering, marketplace and collaboration tools.
In addition to SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud, the companies said the partnership includes SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, which enables bidirectional, zero copy data sharing. SAP Snowflake will be available in the first quarter with SAP Business Data Cloud Connect landing in the first half of 2026.
