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Learn how Apache Polaris's new Delta Lake support enables unified data catalog management, simplifying access control and interoperability across Iceberg and Delta table formats.
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Inside Snowflake Intelligence: Five Pillars of Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI
Explore the underlying architecture, orchestration, and system-level optimizations behind Snowflake Intelligence, a production-grade agentic AI system built for enterprise reasoning.
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Snowflake’s Native Semantic Views: Unlocking Easy, Efficient and Trusted AI-Powered BI for the Enterprise
Discover how Snowflake’s native semantic views simplify business intelligence by enabling trusted, AI-powered insights with easier access to governed data.
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Smaller Models, Smarter SQL: Arctic-Text2SQL-R1 Tops BIRD and Wins Broadly
A deep dive into how Snowflake AI built Arctic-Text2SQL-R1 using simple rewards, strong reasoning, and a scalable approach to real-world SQL generation.
MAY 29, 2025|14 min read
Arctic Inference with Shift Parallelism: The Fastest Open Source Inference System for Enterprise AI
Built by Snowflake AI Research, Arctic Inference uses Shift Parallelism, SwiftKV, and speculative decoding to power the fastest open-source enterprise AI.
MAY 29, 2025|15 min read
Scaling vLLM for Embeddings: 16x Throughput and Cost Reduction
Learn how we increased embedding throughput 3x in Snowflake Cortex—and 16x vs. vLLM—through smarter serialization, tokenization, and GPU optimization.
MAY 29, 2025|8 min read
Announcing Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 are now on Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling secure access to Anthropic’s latest models via LLM functions and REST APIs.
MAY 22, 2025|5 min read
Powering Natural Language Interfaces for the Web with NLWeb and Snowflake
Build chatbots for your website in minutes using NLWeb and Snowflake’s Cortex APIs—fast, secure retrieval and LLMs with no extra infrastructure.
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