Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly

Soon after announcing its earnings for the third quarter of FY25, Snowflake dropped a bombshell: It is teaming up with leading AI vendor Anthropic to further advance AI projects for its customers. 

The data ecosystem giant has signed a multi-year strategic agreement, bringing Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 family of models to its core platform on AWS. The move will allow enterprises using Snowflake to leverage the cutting-edge Claude large language models (LLMs) for building advanced AI applications, including conversational agents. The engagement will also power Snowflake’s customer-facing agentic offerings as well as help the company’s employees accelerate their internal workflows.

The partnership comes as the latest in a series of efforts by Snowflake to provide enterprises with everything they need to develop secure and governed generative AI applications using their data hosted on the company’s platform. Just recently, it even announced ...