Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty

Snowflake plans to spend as much as $200 million with OpenAI to bring its models and chatbot into the database vendor's sandbox and toolset. Features such as Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence will get a boost from the house of Altman.

"Snowflake is committing up to $200 million to purchase access to OpenAI's frontier models and ChatGPT Enterprise over the course of the multi-year agreement," Baris Gultekin, Snowflake's vice president of AI, told The Register. "This reflects Snowflake's conviction that providing OpenAI technology to our enterprise customer base, at scale and with enterprise-grade reliability, is strategically important. It is a commercial commitment anchored in real AI consumption by Snowflake customers, not a speculative or symbolic partnership."

Snowflake has previously allowed users of its data analytics and storage platform to access OpenAI through integration with Microsoft Azure, a service announced last year. This new integration lets them ...