OpenAI GPT 5.5 on Snowflake Cortex AI
We are thrilled to announce the availability of OpenAI GPT 5.5, OpenAI's latest model, on Snowflake Cortex AI. As a launch partner with OpenAI, we're providing same-day availability of OpenAI GPT 5.5 in private preview. It is available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Cortex Code, Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex AI Functions and Cortex REST API.
OpenAI GPT 5.5
GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's most capable frontier model to date, providing notable improvements in agentic coding, computer use and knowledge work. Rather than breaking tasks into detailed steps, you can hand it a complex, multi-part problem and it plans, validates and works through ambiguity end-to-end on its own. It's especially strong at coding, debugging, data analysis and document generation.
Source: OpenAI, Apr 23, 2026
What you can do with OpenAI GPT 5.5 on Snowflake
GPT 5.5 joins other leading frontier models in Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling a wide range of enterprise use cases, all within Snowflake’s perimeter. With GPT 5.5, you can:
- Speed up development with Cortex Code: Snowflake’s AI coding agent understands your enterprise data, governance policies and workflows, enabling teams to go from idea to production quickly without breaking trust or impacting scale. Now, with GPT-5.5, Cortex Code enables improved reasoning, code generation, support for more complex, long-running tasks and agentic execution, bringing secure, Snowflake-aware assistance directly into Snowsight interface, the CLI and local dev tools. For data engineers, analysts and builders, it turns natural language into production-ready pipelines, analytics and AI agents — collapsing weeks of glue work into minutes, while staying governed, interoperable and enterprise-grade. You can try OpenAI GPT-5.5 in private preview using /model command within the CLI:
Build advanced enterprise intelligence agents: Snowflake Intelligence introduces a new category of 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-5.5 will extend this foundation, enabling the creation of advanced agents that reason across complex data, write and execute code with greater autonomy and orchestrate analytical and operational workflows.
- Analyze structured and unstructured data with unparalleled precision: Cortex AI Functions make it easy to build scalable AI pipelines across multimodal enterprise data using 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 models such as GPT 5.5.
SELECT AI_COMPLETE(
'openai-gpt-5-5',
PROMPT('Review the following financial filing and summarize key revenue trends, margin changes, and any notable risk factors mentioned: {0}', my_table.filing)) FROM my_table
- Developers can build AI applications closer to their secure data: Use the Cortex REST API to build agentic enterprise applications within the Snowflake security perimeter. They can leverage new capabilities such as GPT-5.5’s adjustable effort levels, enabling the model to balance reasoning depth and latency on a task. Developers can get started quickly using the OpenAI SDK by pointing it to their Snowflake Cortex REST API endpoint, enabling a seamless integration with familiar Anthropic tooling.
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-5-5",
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)
Moving agentic AI from concept production is now a strategic imperative. Powered by OpenAI's GPT 5.5, agents can handle complex, long-running tasks with greater consistency and reduced supervision, driving real work forward at scale. With multiple entry points from Cortex Code CLI to Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex AI Functions and REST APIs, customers can easily adopt this capability and accelerate their path to high-impact, production-ready agentic AI at scale.
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