Snowflake, Anthropic Expand Partnership at Summit 2026

Snowflake Summit: Snowflake and Anthropic announced an expansion of their strategic partnership on Monday during Snowflake Summit 2026, the company’s largest-ever user conference held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This expanded collaboration deepens co-innovation across Snowflake Cortex AI, with Anthropic’s Claude models now powering key products such as Snowflake Cortex Code and Snowflake Intelligence. High-profile enterprise customers, including Block, Carvana, Indeed, and Notion, are already actively adopting Claude within Snowflake’s governed data platform.

The Rapid Growth of Cortex Code:
A major highlight of the announcement centers on Snowflake Cortex Code, which the company has identified as its fastest-growing product in history, rapidly scaling to more than 7,100 users. First unveiled in February 2026, this AI coding agent is tailored specifically for data teams to automate end-to-end enterprise development. It accomplishes this by deeply understanding a user’s unique Snowflake data, compute frameworks, governance protocols, and operational contexts.

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy noted that the tool delivers a massive productivity boost, yielding gains of five to ten times for data operations. Unlike generic, third-party coding assistants, Cortex Code operates natively within the Snowflake environment. This native integration allows the AI to understand complex schemas, user roles, and data masking policies while remaining strictly governed by design.

Building on a $200 Million Foundation:
This latest milestone builds directly upon a foundational $200 million, multi-year partnership established between Snowflake and Anthropic in December 2025. That initial agreement integrated Claude models directly into Cortex AI across all three major public clouds, making them available to more than 12,600 global customers. It also established a joint global go-to-market initiative dedicated to deploying enterprise-grade AI agents across large organizations.

The core principle driving this partnership is an architectural philosophy: bringing advanced AI models to where the enterprise data natively resides, rather than moving sensitive corporate data to external, third-party AI services. This approach directly solves the long-standing security, compliance, and regulatory concerns that have historically slowed down enterprise AI adoption.

Broader Financial and AI Momentum:
The expanded alliance coincides with a period of strong financial momentum for Snowflake. The data cloud giant recently posted its first-quarter fiscal 2027 financial results, highlighting a product revenue of $1.33 billion representing a robust 34% increase year-over-year. Additionally, the firm secured a massive $6 billion multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As enterprise demand for intelligence tools surges, more than 13,600 corporate accounts are now actively utilizing Snowflake’s AI capabilities. Underscoring the tight integration between the two tech leaders, Anthropic’s Co-Founder and President, Daniela Amodei, was scheduled to appear alongside Snowflake executives for a featured keynote discussion during the summit.

source: perplexity.ai