Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake announced on September 9, 2026 that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now available in private preview on Cortex AI as a launch partner. The model runs inside the secure Snowflake perimeter and is reachable through Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake CoWork, Cortex Agents, Cortex AI Functions, and Cortex Inference, giving custom OpenAI is described as the model creator with Snowflake providing the governed enterprise distribution channel. Recommended workloads on Cortex include long-running agentic workflows needing less supervision, template-driven document generation, complex software engineering, and analysis across very large documents whe

At Snowflake Summit 26 on June 1, 2026, Snowflake and Anthropic announced a deepened co-innovation deal that integrates Claude across the Cortex AI platform, with Cortex Code (a Claude-powered coding agent) highlighted as Snowflake's fastest-growing product with more than 7,100 users. Named production deployments inclu The strategic framing is to move AI reasoning to where governed data resides rather than copying data out to external model hosts, keeping governance controls intact for regulated enterprise workloads. The trade publication adds an independent angle on Snowflake's enterprise adoption signals and clarifies that Anthropi

Snowflake's official release notes index documents several Cortex-relevant feature updates dated September 2026. On September 4, 2026, prompt injection guardrails in Cortex AI Guardrails expanded to AWS EU, AWS JP, and AWS APJ regions when the CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION account parameter is set to those values, wherea Additional September 2026 entries advance Cortex Agents and governance: on September 3, 2026, Restricted Session Scope for agents reached general availability, defining a privilege ceiling that intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges beyond the user's existing roles, and external lineage also moved to general