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title: "Snowflake and Anthropic announce $200M partnership"
description: "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."
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# Snowflake and Anthropic announce $200M partnership

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Sep 10, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## 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.

## Context

Enterprises have secure, trusted data environments and want AI that can operate within them without compromising security. The partnership also responds to demand for deploying AI agents across large enterprises and moving implementations from pilots to production, including in regulated industries.

## Approach / What changed

The partnership makes Claude available in Snowflake and combines Claude’s reasoning with Snowflake’s governed data and AI environment. It includes a joint go-to-market initiative, Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex AI Functions, Cortex Agents, and Horizon Catalog governance and observability for natural-language, multimodal, and multi-agent workloads.

## Takeaways

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [Claude](https://yomu.fyi/topic/claude), [Data Governance](https://yomu.fyi/topic/data-governance), [Snowflake](https://yomu.fyi/topic/snowflake)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/snowflake-anthropic-expanded-partnership)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/snowflake-anthropic-expanded-partnership
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-10T20:04:32.690Z

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