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.

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.

In March, Snowflake announced exciting releases, including advances in AI and ML with new features in Snowflake Cortex, new governance and privacy features in Snowflake Horizon, and broader developer support with the Snowflake CLI. Read on to learn more about everything we announced last month.

You can now query Delta Lake tables stored in Cloud Storage or Amazon Web Services S3 directly from BigQuery, without exporting or copying the data.

BigQuery supports multimodal embedding generation via Vertex AI models, and for structured data with PCA, Autoencoder or Matrix Factorization models.

insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, empowering organizations to unlock business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. In today’s data-driven world, application and development teams are facing a growing demand to empower their users with greater decision intelligence. This means equipping users with the tools and insights they need to make informed choices.

Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses, but unlocking its true insights often requires complex SQL queries. These queries can be time-consuming to write and challenging to maintain. At Snowflake, we believe in making the power of data accessible to all. That’s why we prioritize simplicity, governance and quality in everything we build – including our AI-powered tools.

BigQuery data canvas improves data analytics with a natural language-driven experience for data discovery, preparation, querying, and visualization.

With Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision in BigQuery via Vertex AI, you can analyze images and videos by combining them with your own text prompts.

We unified key data Google Cloud analytics capabilities under BigQuery, which becomes a single, unified, AI-ready data analytics platform.