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Cortex Analyst: Paving the Way to Self-Service Analytics with AI

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Snowflake Cortex Analyst. Cortex Analyst, built using Meta’s Llama and Mistral models, is a fully managed service that provides a conversational interface to interact with structured data in Snowflake. It streamlines the development of intuitive, self-serve analytics applications for business users, while providing industry-leading accuracy.

4 Strategies for Media Publishers to Optimize Content with Gen AI

In today's fast-paced world of media publishing, keeping up with technological advancements and changing consumer preferences is no easy task. Tight budgets, fierce competition and evolving audience behaviors add to the pressure, creating what's often termed the "content crash" — a saturation of content that makes it hard for publishers to stand out. But amidst these challenges, there's a beacon of hope: generative AI.

Accelerate Time-Series Analytics with RANGE-Based Window Frames, now Generally Available

At Snowflake, we are committed to helping customers derive meaningful insights from data with simplicity and speed. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of our enhanced RANGE-based window frame, which will help accelerate time-series analytics. For customers across industries, the ability to perform time-series analytics is crucial. This often involves calculating rolling statistics that remain robust despite gaps or nonuniform time-series data.

Continued Investments in Price Performance and Faster Top-K Queries

The Snowflake AI Data Cloud is an end-to-end platform that supports all types of data, compute, use cases and personas across an entire organization. By delivering a single, unified platform for all users, it is no surprise that organizations continue to expand their use cases on Snowflake. And therefore, it is extremely important for us to reaffirm our commitment to price-performant queries for our customers on a consistent basis.

Securely Deploy Custom Apps and Models with Snowpark Container Services, Now Generally Available

Since introducing Snowpark Container Services, we’ve seen overwhelming adoption across industries from customers and partners, including Landing.AI, Relational.AI, H20.AI, SailPoint, AIR MILES, Spark NZ, and Eutelsat OneWeb. These organizations and many more are using Snowpark Container Services capabilities to easily and securely deploy everything from custom front-ends and large-scale ML training and inference to open source and homegrown models, all securely within Snowflake.

Accelerating Academic Medical Research with an AI-Driven Data Strategy

Academic medical centers (AMCs) are a critical keystone of healthcare systems worldwide. They serve as major hubs of medical research, pioneering new treatments that advance and set the standard of care throughout medicine. They also educate and train the next generation of healthcare professionals, ensuring that the medical field continues to advance. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 230 active AMCs, and a significant number are part of a health system.

Snowflake Advances Cybersecurity Excellence by Joining CISA Secure by Design Pledge

I’m happy to share that Snowflake has signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Secure By Design Pledge as we champion the advancement of industry standards for security in technology design. The CISA pledge to foster tech-ecosystem security deeply aligns with Snowflake’s own product design ethos, where security is built in from the start.

Snowflake Cortex Search: State-of-the-Art Hybrid Search for RAG Applications

Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. With Cortex Search, organizations can effortlessly deploy retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications with Snowflake, powering use cases like customer service, financial research and sales chatbots.

Snowflake Cortex AI Launches Cortex Guard to Implement LLM Safeguards

Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.

How Snowflake Accelerates Business Growth for Providers of Data, Apps and AI Products

Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.