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Working towards its vision of being the control plane for agentic enterprises, Snowflake has expanded its Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code AI solutions to transform how business users turn insights into action.
Snowflake, the artificial intelligence (AI) data cloud company, has announced a series of enhancements across Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code, furthering its ambition to become the control plane for agentic enterprises.
As AI evolves beyond answering questions to taking action, the latest updates are designed to help organizations connect more data sources, enterprise systems, and AI models within a single, unified experience.
This approach enables businesses to better align their data, workflows, and tools with AI agents built on Snowflake, supporting more seamless and practical execution of tasks across the enterprise.
Central to this development is Snowflake Intelligence, which is positioned as a personalized work agent for business users. The platform evolves over time by learning individual preferences and workflows, delivering increasingly relevant outputs while automating routine processes. Importantly, all insights are grounded in governed enterprise data, ensuring both trust and accuracy.
Cortex Code, meanwhile, continues to expand as a development layer for enterprise AI. It provides a governed, data-native environment that allows developers to build, orchestrate, and operationalize AI directly within existing systems and tools. Together, these capabilities support a broad range of users, from business teams to technical specialists, while centralizing how organizations manage and connect their data, models, and applications.
“AI is changing how every company operates, and the platforms that win will make it easy to put AI into practice with the right data and guardrails,” says Baris Gultekin, VP of AI, Snowflake.
“Snowflake gives customers one place to bring their data together, connect the systems they rely on, and turn AI into something that actually helps teams get work done.”
Over 9,100 use Snowflake’s products on a weekly basis, including leading enterprises like Capita, Logitech, Telenav, United Rentals, and Wolfspeed, and are using Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code together to accelerate how they build, deploy, and operate AI.
ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY
Snowflake Intelligence sets itself apart from conventional AI assistants by combining enterprise-grade governance, security, and contextual understanding of business data. The latest updates introduce a more unified experience, enabling users to interact with data, analyze it, and take action across multiple enterprise systems.
New capabilities include the introduction of ‘Skills’, which allow users to describe workflows in natural language – such as preparing presentations or conducting multi-step analysis – which the system can then execute automatically.
Integration is also being strengthened through new Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, enabling direct connections with widely used tools, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Jira, Salesforce, and Slack.
Mobility is another key focus, with a new iOS mobile app set to enter public preview, allowing users to engage with their data and workflows remotely. In addition, deep research functionality will support more complex queries by generating multi-step, fully cited reports that draw on structured data, unstructured content, and external context.
The platform is also becoming more personalized, learning from user behavior over time to refine responses and automate recurring tasks.
Elsewhere, the new “Artifacts” functionality will allow users to save and share analyses, visualizations, and workflows, helping teams build on existing insights and scale knowledge across the organization.
These developments have been informed by customer feedback, including insights gathered during the research preview of Project SnowWork.
SCALING AI DEVELOPMENT
Cortex Code is evolving to support developers working across increasingly complex data environments. Since its launch in November 2025, adoption has grown rapidly, with more than half of Snowflake customers now using the platform to drive productivity and innovation.
Recent updates extend its capabilities across the modern data stack, with expanded support for external systems such as AWS Glue, Databricks, and PostgreSQL. This reinforces Snowflake’s vision of enabling organizations to work with data wherever it resides.
Integration with the broader AI ecosystem is also advancing. Through the MCP and Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), Cortex Code can connect with other AI systems, allowing developers to incorporate it into existing workflows more easily.
To improve flexibility, Snowflake is introducing new tools that allow developers to work within their preferred environments, including a VS Code extension and a Claude Code plugin. In addition, a new Agent Software Development Kit, supporting Python and TypeScript, enables teams to embed Cortex Code capabilities directly into their own applications.
Further enhancements within Snowsight, including Cloud Agents, allow users to run code and execute workflows directly in the browser without local setup. Additional features such as Plan Mode and Snap & Ask provide greater control and more intuitive interaction with data, helping teams improve both efficiency and accuracy.
This article was produced by the editorial team at North America Outlook and published as part of the Outlook Publishing global network of B2B industry magazines.
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Lucy Pilgrim is an in-house writer for North America Outlook Magazine, where she is responsible for interviewing corporate executives and crafting original features for the magazine, corporate brochures, and the digital platform.
