Announcing OpenAI GPT-5.2 on Snowflake Cortex AI
We are thrilled to announce the availability of GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s most capable model available to customers on Snowflake Cortex AI. We're providing same-day availability of GPT-5.2 in private preview. It is available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Cortex AI Functions and Cortex REST API, and will be coming soon in Snowflake Intelligence.
GPT-5.2
GPT‑5.2 brings significant improvements in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision—making it better at executing complex, real-world tasks end-to-end than any previous model. It also sets a new state of the art across many benchmarks, including GDPval, where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.
Customers can expect major gains in the quality of spreadsheets, presentations, code and analytical outputs, reflecting GPT-5.2’s leap in professional-grade reasoning and productivity. In addition, GPT-5.2 delivers best-in-class multimodal accuracy, handling charts, dashboards, UIs and complex visual information with far greater precision than prior models.
It is also significantly more reliable at reasoning across long and complex workflows, coordinating multi-step tasks and using tools with near-perfect accuracy, making it ideal for production AI agents.
Source: Introducing GPT-5.2, 12/11/2025
What you can do with GPT-5.2 on Snowflake
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 joins other leading frontier models in Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling a wide range of enterprise use cases, all within Snowflake’s security and governance perimeter. With GPT-5.2, you can:
Build enterprise intelligence agents: Snowflake Intelligence (generally available) introduces a new category of intelligent, enterprise AI agents designed to transform how organizations work, collaborate and innovate by fostering a truly data-driven culture. Every employee, regardless of technical depth, can ask complex questions in natural language, uncover the “why” behind every “what” and take confident action, all within Snowflake’s secure and governed perimeter. For developers, admins and builders, GPT-5.2 extends this foundation, enabling the creation of advanced agents that reason across complex data, write and execute code autonomously and orchestrate analytical and operational workflows.
With GPT-5.2’s improvements in long-horizon planning and tool reliability, these agents can now operate more independently, executing multi-step business processes with fewer handoffs and greater accuracy.
Analyze multimodal data with unparalleled precision: With Cortex AI Functions, analysts can use directly within the data warehouse. Native SQL functions unlock cost-efficient AI pipelines that can classify, filter and synthesize insights across both structured tables and unstructured data such as text and images, turning frontier model performance into a simple, scalable analytics tool.
GPT-5.2’s stronger vision and spatial reasoning capabilities dramatically improve accuracy on dashboards, diagrams, and document analysis, unlocking new levels of insights from visual and multimodal enterprise data.
Using GPT-5.2 in Snowflake
AI Functions
Cortex AI Functions make it easy to build scalable AI pipelines across multimodal enterprise data using familiar SQL. Cortex AI Functions deliver high-performance processing at a lower cost than manually orchestrated AI pipelines, enabling trusted insights across the enterprise while maintaining the security and governance capabilities Snowflake is known for. For example, with the AI_COMPLETE function, analysts can apply natural language instructions directly in SQL, leveraging state-of-the-art models like GPT-5.2.
As a result of GPT-5.2’s enhanced long-context reasoning, analysts can now perform deeper document synthesis and multi-source analysis directly within SQL workflows.
SELECT *
FROM AI_COMPLETE(
'openai-gpt-5-2',
PROMPT('Review the following financial filing and summarize key revenue trends, margin changes, and any notable risk factors mentioned: {0}')
);
Revenue grew 40% YoY, driven by strong cloud adoption and enterprise renewals. Gross margin expanded 180 bps to 76% due to lower infrastructure costs, while operating expenses increased 9% from higher R&D investment. Management highlighted FX volatility and delayed EMEA deals as near-term risks.REST API
Snowflake developers can leverage GPT-5.2’s state-of-the-art capabilities with the Cortex REST API for low-latency use cases, leveraging prompt caching to reduce costs and accelerate repeat queries. Cortex AI also supports the OpenAI SDK, so developers can integrate GPT-5.2 with minimal code changes:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="<SNOWFLAKE_PAT>",
base_url="https://<account-identifier>.snowflakecomputing.com/api/v1/openai"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai-gpt-5-2",
messages=[
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are a helpful business analyst"
},
{
"role": "user",
"content":
"Sales are down 18% in Q2. We had lower ad spend and reduced campaign performance in APAC. Can you analyze the image below to examine the cause?"
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "<base64 url>"
}
}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message)
This makes it easier to build real-time agentic systems that depend on rapid tool usage, image understanding and complex reasoning.
Looking Ahead
Snowflake prioritizes security and privacy, and OpenAI is dedicated to building secure, reliable AI, creating strong alignment in delivering cutting-edge innovations. GPT-5.2 is now available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Cortex AI Functions and the Cortex REST API, and will be coming soon to Snowflake Intelligence. Together, Snowflake and OpenAI are empowering enterprises to harness frontier intelligence safely and at scale, transforming how data and AI come together across every workflow.
As GPT-5.2 expands what’s possible with high-quality professional outputs, long-context understanding and advanced agentic reasoning, Snowflake will continue to bring these capabilities directly to governed enterprise data, enabling the next generation of intelligent applications.
Learn More:
Read our launch announcement for Snowflake Intelligence and learn more about it here.
Watch the Snowflake Intelligence demo to see these capabilities in action.
Gain insights from structured and unstructured data with Snowflake Intelligence via this quickstart.
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