Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up

Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis inside Snowflake's governed data environments.

The combination is a win for Anthropic's efforts to get its large language models (LLMs) used in enterprises ahead of other providers like OpenAI and Google. It will allow customers in the highly regulated finance and healthcare industries – among others – to deploy agents and then pull answers from across an enterprise’s Snowflake instance with greater than 90 percent accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks, the companies claimed in the deal announcements published Wednesday. The press release said the deal was worth $200 million, but it's not clear who's paying whom nor how that number is measured. We've reached out to both companies for more info and will update this story if they respond.

It's worth noting that anything less than ...