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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.