Snowflake Ties Up With OpenAI in USD 200 Mn Deal to Expand AI Access The collaboration focuses on integrating OpenAI's models directly into the Snowflake platform, allowing businesses to develop and deploy AI-driven tools in a secure environment.
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI and cloud-based data platform Snowflake announced a USD 200 million multi-year partnership aimed at helping organisations better use artificial intelligence with their proprietary data.
The collaboration focuses on integrating OpenAI's models directly into the Snowflake platform, allowing businesses to develop and deploy AI-driven tools in a secure environment. By bringing the technology closer to where enterprise data is stored, the companies say the partnership is designed to reduce barriers between AI systems and organisational data assets.
As part of the agreement, OpenAI models will be made available within Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence. This integration enables more than 12,000 Snowflake customers to access AI-powered capabilities directly within their existing data environments. Employees can query and analyse both structured and unstructured data using natural language, without requiring advanced technical skills.
Models such as GPT-5.2 are being used to help teams across departments interact with data more easily, supporting tasks such as reporting, analysis, and decision-making. The approach is intended to broaden access to insights by allowing non-technical users to work with complex datasets.
The partnership also places emphasis on governance and compliance, a growing concern as large language models are adopted in enterprise settings. Through Snowflake's Horizon Catalog, organisations can apply security controls and compliance policies while using advanced AI tools, ensuring data remains governed and auditable.
Several companies, including Canva and WHOOP, are already using the combined technologies to build custom AI agents that operate on governed data and support business processes across multiple applications. These tools are being used to scale visual AI capabilities and enable faster, data-informed decisions.
In addition, teams from OpenAI and Snowflake are jointly developing new features using the OpenAI Apps SDK and AgentKit to support enterprise workflows. The collaboration also includes multimodal capabilities, allowing users to analyse text, images, and audio alongside traditional data using standard SQL.
OpenAI itself uses Snowflake for internal analytics and experiment tracking, while Snowflake has adopted ChatGPT Enterprise to support its internal operations. The announcement follows Snowflake's earlier USD 200 million partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI's recent deal with AI chipmaker Cerebras.
