How we made AISQL up to 8x faster and 70x cheaper through AI-aware planning, adaptive model cascading, and semantic join rewriting.
Zihan Li
Zihan Li is a Senior Engineer at Snowflake. For the past six years, he has focused on building and scaling the distributed systems that power the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. His expertise in high-performance systems was integral to developing the new AI-driven SQL optimizations.
NOV 04, 2025|8 min read
