New Integration Empowers Businesses to Build Secure, AI-Powered Applications and Data Agents
Snowflake has announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft, enabling enterprises to seamlessly integrate OpenAI’s models into Snowflake Cortex AI. Through Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, businesses can now build AI-powered applications and data agents directly within Snowflake, leveraging real-time multimodal analysis across text, audio, and video in a secure and governed environment.
“We’re expanding our long-standing partnership with Microsoft to deliver the best of OpenAI’s innovations directly to our customers.”
— Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake
Key Benefits of the Integration:
- Faster AI adoption: Enterprises can deploy OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models within Snowflake without complex integrations.
- Enterprise-grade security: AI models run within Snowflake’s security boundary, ensuring strong data governance and compliance.
- Cross-cloud, cross-region access: Customers can access OpenAI models from any cloud provider, optimizing AI workloads globally.
- Seamless AI-powered insights: Businesses can build conversational AI and intelligent automation that deliver high-impact outcomes.
“Enterprises are looking to leverage their proprietary data to create AI differentiation, and our partnership with Microsoft accelerates this,” said Asha Sharma, CVP, Head of Product, Microsoft AI Platform. “By integrating Azure OpenAI Service into Snowflake Cortex AI, we’re helping businesses bring intuitive and trustworthy AI applications to life faster than ever.”
Expanding AI Capabilities Across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
As part of the partnership, Snowflake Cortex Agents will integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, allowing enterprises to interact with their structured and unstructured Snowflake data using natural language within Microsoft apps. General availability is expected in June 2025.
