Snowflake and Anthropic announce $200M partnership

Summary

Anthropic and Snowflake announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership that brings Claude models to Snowflake’s more than 12,600 customers across Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure. The agreement also includes a joint go-to-market initiative for deploying AI agents in large enterprises. Claude can analyze structured and unstructured data through Snowflake Cortex AI, while Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Agents support natural-language questions, multimodal SQL-based analysis, and custom multi-agent solutions under Snowflake Horizon Catalog governance. Snowflake’s internal benchmarks report greater than 90% accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks, and examples include Simon Data and Intercom. The partnership is positioned to help regulated industries move AI agents from pilots to production within governed data environments.

Takeaways

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   The $200 million, multi-year agreement makes Claude available through Snowflake to more than 12,600 global customers across Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.

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   Snowflake Cortex AI Functions support Claude-based SQL analysis of text, images, audio, and tabular data, while Cortex Agents supports production-ready agents over structured and unstructured data.

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   Snowflake reports greater than 90% accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks in internal benchmarks, and Horizon Catalog provides governance and responsible AI controls for regulated deployments.