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SwiftKV from Snowflake AI Research Reduces Inference Costs of Meta Llama LLMs up to 75% on Cortex AI

Jan 16, 2025 By Harshal Pimpalkhute In Snowflake
Large language models (LLMs) are at the heart of generative AI transformations, driving solutions across industries — from efficient customer support to simplified data analysis. Enterprises need performant, cost-effective and low-latency inference to scale their gen AI solutions. Yet, the complexity and computational demands of LLM inference present a challenge. Inference costs remain prohibitive for many workloads. That’s where SwiftKV and Snowflake Cortex AI come in.
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The AI Tipping Point: What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know for 2025

Jan 16, 2025 By Tim Long In Snowflake
AI is proving that it’s here to stay. While 2023 brought wonder, and 2024 saw widespread experimentation, 2025 will be the year that manufacturing enterprises get serious about AI's applications. But it’s complicated: AI proofs of concept are graduating from the sandbox to production, just as some of AI’s biggest cheerleaders are turning a bit dour.
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The Advanced Guide to Unlocking Geospatial Insights in Snowflake

Jan 15, 2025 By Kevin McGinley In Snowflake
Over the last three geospatial-centric blog posts, we’ve covered the basics of what geospatial data is, how it works in the broader world of data and how it specifically works in Snowflake based on our native support for GEOGRAPHY, GEOMETRY and H3. Those articles are great for dipping your toe in, getting a feel for the water and maybe even wading into the shallow end of the pool. But there is so much more you can do with geospatial data in your Snowflake account!
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Introducing One Million Minds + One Platform

Jan 13, 2025 By Snowflake In Snowflake
AI and technology are reshaping the world we live and work in every day. It’s imperative that we equip people with the tools and skills they need to succeed in this rapidly changing landscape. In this video, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy announces a new company initiative to tackle the challenge. Called "One Million Minds + One Platform," its goal is to train and certify one million students and professionals in data and AI by 2029 and 100,000 users on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud by 2027.
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Securing Snowflake With Network And Authentication Policies: Protect Your Account

Jan 10, 2025 By Snowflake In Snowflake
In this video, we explore Network and Authentication Policies in Snowflake. These are account-level rules that control who can successfully connect to your Snowflake environment. Network Policies define allowed sources, determining which IP ranges can access your Snowflake account. Authentication Policies control access by enforcing Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication and other rules for secure logins.
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Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake In January

Jan 9, 2025 By Snowflake In Snowflake
This month's edition of Snow Report provides details on upcoming must-attend events, such as AI & Data Predictions 2025, Startup Demo Day, and Gen AI Day. The newsletter also contains some important product announcements, a list of recommended resources, and details about the launch of this year's Startup Challenge.
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Build RAG and Agent-based AI Apps with Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Snowflake Cortex AI

Jan 9, 2025 By Harshal Pimpalkhute In Snowflake
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the first Anthropic foundation model available in Snowflake Cortex AI. Customers can now access the most intelligent model in the Claude model family from Anthropic using familiar SQL, Python and REST API interfaces, within the Snowflake security perimeter.
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Predictions 2025: AI as Cybersecurity Tool and Target

Jan 8, 2025 By Brad Jones In Snowflake
Though AI is (still) the hottest technology topic, it’s not the overriding issue for enterprise security in 2025. Advanced AI will open up new attack vectors and also deliver new tools for protecting an organization’s data. But the underlying challenge is the sheer quantity of data that overworked cybersecurity teams face as they try to answer basic questions such as, “Are we under attack?”
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Composable CDPs in Financial Services: Empowering Marketers and Reducing Compliance Risk

Jan 7, 2025 By Eddie Drake In Snowflake
Marketers at financial services companies have their work cut out for them. Their companies have a wealth of data, but that data is often fragmented among different systems and divisions, and protected-class data has a wide range of restrictions on how it can be used for different product lines.
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Snowflake Brings Its "End Data Disparity" Initiative To Switzerland For The World Economic Forum

Jan 6, 2025 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Snowflake is heading to Davos, Switzerland in January to the World Economic Forum 2025, carrying with it its message about the End Data Disparity initiative and its knowledge of how AI is revolutionizing all that can be accomplished with data. Stay tuned for "Data Cloud Now's" upcoming coverage of the event and its conversations with industry leaders. The Forum runs from January 20 to 24.
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