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At Snowflake, we are committed to providing our customers with industry-leading LLMs. We’re pleased to bring Meta’s latest Llama 4 models to Snowflake Cortex AI!

We’ve seen how Snowflake AI tools are transforming outcomes for our customers. From saving 4,000 hours a year on manual email intake to treating more patients in emergency rooms to saving 75% of costs, AI in Snowflake is making a real impact on businesses around the world. That same transformative power is at work within Snowflake, too.

For many organizations across industries, the era of experimental AI has given way to the era of practical implementation. Even those companies still testing and evaluating AI solutions are shifting away from the art of the possible to focus more closely on what will soon produce measurable ROI. “It will no longer be enough for your organization to merely use AI to win the approval of company leadership,” says Samuel Lee, Product Marketing Director for Financial Services at Snowflake.

Data storage has been evolving, from databases to data warehouses and expansive data lakes, with each architecture responding to different business and data needs. Traditional databases excelled at structured data and transactional workloads but struggled with performance at scale as data volumes grew. The data warehouse solved for performance and scale but, much like the databases that preceded it, relied on proprietary formats to build vertically integrated systems.

Despite the best efforts of many ML teams, most models still never make it to production due to disparate tooling, which often leads to fragmented data and ML pipelines and complex infrastructure management. Snowflake has continuously focused on making it easier and faster for customers to bring advanced models into production.

Nearly nine out of 10 business leaders say their organizations’ data ecosystems are ready to build and deploy AI, according to a recent survey. But 84% of the IT practitioners surveyed spend at least one hour a day fixing data problems. Seventy percent spend one to four hours a day remediating data issues, while 14% spend more than four hours each day.

As privacy standards continue to evolve, businesses face a dual challenge: to uphold ethical standards for data use while seizing the opportunities offered by data collaboration. Enter data clean rooms: a privacy-enhancing solution that allows organizations to share valuable insights without compromising compliance.* If you're new to data clean rooms, our recent blog post “Data Clean Rooms Explained: What You Need to Know About Privacy-First Collaboration” breaks down the fundamentals.

Many financial services companies are experimenting with AI through pilot programs, but several challenges remain for adoption. Key concerns include data security, the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) and the rigorous scrutiny from regulators regarding AI’s role in financial decision-making. Current use cases are largely internal, with some customer-facing chatbot solutions addressing noncritical service inquiries.

Unstructured text is everywhere in business: customer reviews, support tickets, call transcripts, documents. Large language models (LLMs) are transforming how we extract value from this data by running tasks from categorization to summarization and more. While AI has proved that real-time conversations in natural language are possible with LLMs, extracting insights from millions of unstructured data records using these LLMs can be a game changer. This is where batch LLM inference becomes essential.

Some 70% of organizations are actively exploring or implementing large language model (LLM) use cases, but fewer than a third of generative AI experiments have made it into production. A common hurdle? The inability to access and leverage the data crucial for running AI applications effectively. Snowflake’s Accelerate 2025 virtual events dive into the challenges and myriad opportunities offered by AI.