Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and Anthropic, the AI safety and research company, announced at Snowflake Summit 26 significant momentum in their strategic partnership. Enterprises are increasingly adopting Anthropic Claude in Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s suite of AI products, driven by growing demand for governed, production-ready AI.
Together, Snowflake and Anthropic are helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to production faster.
Building on Snowflake’s and Anthropic’s expanded partnership from December 2025, which integrated Claude models directly into Cortex AI across all major cloud platforms and established a joint go-to-market strategy, Snowflake and Anthropic are helping global enterprises deploy AI agents on their most critical business data.
Anthropic delivers frontier model capabilities through Claude, while Snowflake makes Claude enterprise-ready, bringing it directly to the data, governance, security, and collaboration environment where customers already operate. Through Cortex AI, customers can use Claude with their Snowflake data, deploy AI agents with enterprise-grade controls, and select the Anthropic model that best fits their specific workload without moving sensitive data outside the Snowflake environment.
Enterprise Momentum Across Customers and Partners
As enterprises operationalize AI across critical workflows, customers are turning to Snowflake and Anthropic to support advanced use cases that require deep context, strong reasoning, and enterprise-grade controls. These include customer support and financial analysis, as well as life sciences research, developer productivity, and sales intelligence, where real business context is critical. This momentum spans every industry as organizations look to run AI directly on governed data within the systems where their businesses already operate. Snowflake’s partner ecosystem extends this value, helping joint customers design, deploy, and scale Snowflake and Anthropic AI solutions to drive real business outcomes
Key areas of innovation include:
Apply advanced AI to governed enterprise data: Snowflake brings Anthropic Claude models into Cortex AI so customers can use frontier reasoning across all data types while maintaining Snowflake governance and security controls.
- Empower knowledge workers to turn data into action: Snowflake Intelligence, the personal agent that helps you work smarter, is powered by industry-leading models like Claude to enable natural language queries, reasoning across enterprise data, and helps turn insights into action. By combining deep business context with trusted governance and frontier AI models, Snowflake Intelligence helps teams move beyond static dashboards to uncover the “why” and accelerate faster, more confident decision-making.
- Accelerate developer productivity on enterprise data workloads: Snowflake Cortex Code, the coding agent where you build faster, which has become Snowflake’s fastest-growing product ever with more than 7,100 users, is also powered by leading models like Claude. It is purpose-built for Snowflake schemas, data apps, and workflows. It translates a single prompt into production-ready pipelines and apps, making it ideal for enterprises managing complex data and governance in Snowflake. Enterprises already using Claude Code for software, API, and app development can securely bring governed Snowflake data into their development workflows through the Cortex Code plugin for Claude Code.
- Build production-ready AI agents on trusted data: Cortex Agents, Snowflake’s framework for building enterprise AI agents, enables customers to build agents that retrieve, reason over, and act on governed enterprise data, with Claude supporting a range of use cases including customer support automation, data analysis, and core operations.
- Simplify how enterprises engage and scale AI investments: As one of six launch partners in the Claude Marketplace, Snowflake is working with Anthropic to simplify procurement and unlock joint commercial models, enabling customers to apply existing Anthropic commitments toward Snowflake AI capabilities and consolidate their AI spend.
- Strengthen security and responsible AI deployment: Snowflake and Anthropic share a commitment to enterprise-grade security, governance, and responsible AI, including collaboration on emerging Claude Code Security capabilities that help organizations identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities with built-in human oversight.
