Snowflake has signed a US$200 million, multi-year partnership with OpenAI to integrate AI models into its enterprise data platform.
Under the agreement, OpenAI’s models will be made natively available within Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI applications and agents directly on their data.
The partnership is structured as a first-party integration, positioning OpenAI as one of the primary model providers within Snowflake’s AI services.
The integration will be available to Snowflake’s more than 12,600 global customers.
Snowflake said models including GPT-5.2 will be accessible within Snowflake Intelligence, its enterprise AI agent platform, allowing employees to analyse enterprise data using natural language within a governed environment.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake, said,
“By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organizations to build and deploy AI on top of their most valuable asset using the secure, governed platform they already trust.
Customers can now harness all their enterprise knowledge in Snowflake together with the world-class intelligence of OpenAI models, enabling them to build AI agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy.”
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, said,
“Snowflake is a trusted platform that sits at the center of how enterprises manage and activate their most critical data.
This partnership brings our advanced models directly into that environment, making it easier to deploy AI agents and apps, so businesses can close the gap between what AI is capable of and the value they can create today,”
Snowflake and OpenAI will jointly develop tools that allow enterprises to build custom AI agents across systems using governed data.
The partnership builds on existing internal use, with OpenAI using Snowflake for analytics and Snowflake using OpenAI’s enterprise tools.
Snowflake said the collaboration is aimed at accelerating adoption of agentic AI across large organisations by combining OpenAI’s models with its data governance, security and reliability framework.
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