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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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JUN 03, 2025|13 min read
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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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JUN 03, 2025|10 min read
Gen AI

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.
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MAY 29, 2025|14 min read
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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.
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MAY 29, 2025|15 min read
Gen AI

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.
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MAY 29, 2025|8 min read
Gen AI

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.
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MAY 22, 2025|5 min read
Powering Natural Language Interfaces for the Web with NLWeb and Snowflake
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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.
MAY 20, 2025|4 min read
Core Platform

Metadata That Works: How Snowflake Is Raising the Bar for Iceberg Performance

Discover how Snowflake boosts Apache Iceberg performance using format-agnostic metadata optimization, including NDV estimation for faster, efficient queries.
MAY 07, 2025|4 min read
Core Platform

Optimizing Savings Plan Usage in Snowflake

Learn how Snowflake customers can optimize cloud savings plans while managing dynamic workloads, scaling efficiently, and maximizing long-term cost savings.
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MAY 02, 2025|5 min read

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