Snowflake Unveils New AI, Data Governance, and Cost Management Tools

Snowflake unveiled new AI, machine learning, and governance tools, including Cortex for accessing large language models and Horizon for unified data governance. Most are in preview.

Cortex provides managed access to AI models like Document AI and vector search to enable generative AI capabilities.

Horizon brings together compliance, security, privacy, etc to simplify governance. New data quality monitoring aids AI.

Cost Management Interface helps predict and control cloud costs which can surprise users.

New developer tools like Snowpark Notebooks and Snowpark ML Modeling API simplify building applications with Snowflake.