Snowflake has announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft that will empower enterprises to build easy, efficient, and trusted AI-powered apps and data agents with OpenAI’s models directly in Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s fully managed AI service. Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, making OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models available […]
Q4 enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services was $91 billion worldwide, up $17 billion or 22% from the fourth quarter of 2023, according to new data from Synergy Research Group. The full-year 2024 market reach $330 billion, up $60 billion from 2023 and an increase of $102 billion from 2022. It is notable that ChatGPT […]
Snowflake has announced the appointment of Ali Al-Ismail as Country Manager for Saudi Arabia, further highlighting the company’s commitment to growing the local business, being closer to local customers to maximise their data investment and business value with Snowflake’s platform, and aligning to the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 to support industries with their digital economic growth. […]
Snowflake has announced its growing presence in the Middle East with the establishment of a new regional headquarters (RHQ) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and general availability on Google Cloud in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to better meet the Kingdom’s data residency and sovereignty requirements so that data can reside within the country’s borders. As […]
Snowflake and Anthropic have announced a strategic multi-year partnership that will enable global enterprises to develop and scale easy, efficient, and trusted AI products, apps, and workflows powered by the latest state-of-the-art models. Anthropic’s newest Claude 3.5 models will be available for users to securely leverage within Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s fully managed AI service that provides a suite of […]
Snowflake has announced its ‘End Data Disparity’ initiative, which brings together global leaders from across industries, and the data capabilities and collective power of Snowflake’s ecosystem — including partners and customers — to help address and reduce disparities in data quality, availability and access. As part of the initiative, Snowflake has assembled an expert panel […]
Snowflake has announced new AI features to its platform, enabling developers to effortlessly build conversational apps for structured and unstructured data with high accuracy, efficiently batch inference of large language models (LLM) for natural language processing (NLP) pipelines, and train custom models with GPU-powered containers — all with built-in governance, access controls, observability, and safety […]
Snowflake has achieved the Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) certification, enabling the company to extend its services to all markets within the Emirate of Dubai, including government and semi-government organisations. The DESC certification is crucial for cloud service providers operating in Dubai, ensuring they meet the stringent cybersecurity standards necessary to serve government entities. Snowflake […]
Snowflake has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Samooha to accelerate its vision for removing the technical, collaboration, and financial barriers to unlocking value with data clean rooms. Samooha is built for developers and business users and delivers industry specific analysis templates. Samooha’s intuitive user interface makes it easy to build data clean […]
Snowflake has announced its participation at GITEX 2023, the biggest regional tech exhibition taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre in October 2023. This year, Snowflake’s team at GITEX will address how Snowflake’s platform powers the Data Cloud, supports organisations in securely using generative AI and LLMs, and addressing the challenges and opportunities across […]
