Snowflake Launches the World's Best Practical Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases

Today Snowflake is launching and open-sourcing with an Apache 2.0 license the Snowflake Arctic embed family of models. Based on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Retrieval Leaderboard, the largest Arctic embed model with only 334 million parameters is the only one to surpass average retrieval performance of 55.9, a feat only less practical to deploy models with over 1 billion parameters are able to achieve.

LLM Metrics: Key Metrics Explained

Organizations that monitor their LLMs will benefit from higher performing models at higher efficiency, while meeting ethical considerations like ensuring privacy and eliminating bias and toxicity. In this blog post, we bring the top LLM metrics we recommend measuring and when to use each one. In the end, we explain how to implement these metrics in your ML and gen AI pipelines.

Data Security and Compliance: 5 Essential Considerations

With data continuously growing in complexity and quantity, ensuring data security is more important than ever when choosing to buy a business intelligence (BI) solution. From data protection to data governance, having a BI platform that enables you to control, audit, encrypt and manage user access and usage of sensitive data is essential.

Snowflake Horizon Demo for Data Governors And Stewards

Ravi Kumar, Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, shows you how to govern and discover data, apps, and more in Snowflake Horizon. In this demo targeted at data governors and stewards, learn and try the core capabilities of Snowflake Horizon such as classifying and tagging sensitive data, visualizing lineage, monitoring data quality, and applying granular policies.

Secure and scalable data lifecycles with RedHat and Cloudera

Firas Yasin, Global Alliance Manager of AI/ML at RedHat, introduces the RedHat and Cloudera partnership. Firas shares that customers are often missing the combination of security, scalability and support when deploying open-source solutions for their end-to-end data lifecycles. In this video, Firas highlights that together with RedHat OpenShift and Cloudera Data Platform, customers can achieve security and scalability through the joint solution, in addition to catalyzing on RedHat and Cloudera’s unrivaled support offerings.