Snowflake

Snowflake announced Polaris Catalog, an open-source community catalog for Apache Iceberg. The move provides Apache Iceberg interoperability with AWS, Confluent, Dremio, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce among others.

Snowflake launched Arctic, an open-source large language model (LLM) optimized for enterprise workloads and efficiency. The move highlights how data platforms are increasingly launching LLMs to combine with their data platforms.

A lot of people mistake that he's a technologist and doesn't have operational chops. He ran a very large team at Google," said Snowflake CFO Michael Scarpelli.

Snowflake consolidated its AI and machine learning efforts with Snowflake Cortex, a managed service that provides access to large language models (LLMs), AI models and vector search in one place and includes Snowflake Copilot, Document AI and Universal Search.