Snowflake, a global cloud data analytics company, is integrating Anthropic's artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude into its platform. The two companies have joined forces to meet demand from enterprise clients seeking to expand the use of AI agents without compromising the data they hold.
Snowflake announced at "Snowflake Summit 26," held in San Francisco on Wednesday, that it will integrate Anthropic's Claude into Cortex AI, its coding tool. The two companies signed a partnership deal worth $200 million (approximately 303.1 billion won) last December, and the latest move expands that collaboration.
Snowflake has strengths in client information management and security, while Anthropic is a leader in enterprise AI agents. Layering Claude onto Snowflake allows corporate clients to leverage Anthropic's AI reasoning capabilities while reducing concerns about customer data leakage. Snowflake said it had identified such demand from more than 13,900 client companies worldwide.
In the past, cloud clients had to send sales data to external servers to use AI models for tasks such as sales analysis. In the process, companies handling sensitive data in fields such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector could not use AI models, given concerns that doing so might breach personal data protection rules and that the data could be used to train AI models. Recently, however, enterprise software companies including Salesforce and ServiceNow, along with Snowflake, have been embedding AI models into their own platforms.
Snowflake also presented specific use cases. Carvana, a U.S. online used-car platform, has adopted AI across inventory, logistics, finance, and customer demand management, while cybersecurity firm eSentire is applying Claude to threat detection and investigation. Notion, a workplace productivity platform, has built an AI agent that connects directly to Snowflake data, creating an automation flow that runs from question input to deriving insights and executing actual tasks.
The opening keynote of Summit 26 drew attention with a fireside chat between Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, and Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic. The two held an in-depth discussion on AI safety. Asked by Ramaswamy how to strike a balance between speed and safety, Amodei said, "Anthropic is always open to questions about the challenges and shortcomings of AI," adding, "Building security and customer trust can be an accelerant that speeds up business."
