• Snowflake Cortex Agents is a fully managed service that simplifies the integration, retrieval and processing of structured and unstructured data to enable Snowflake customers to build high-quality agents at scale

United Arab Emirates — February 24, 2025 – While AI agents promise to boost business productivity by automating complex tasks, their effectiveness hinges on access to high-quality structured and unstructured data. However, managing access control and maintaining strict privacy protocols while efficiently retrieving accurate information presents a significant challenge for many organisations.

Mohamed Zouari, General Manager, META at Snowflake

Local Snowflake deployment on Google Cloud enables regional customers, such as Almarai, to maximise data value all while meeting data residency requirements

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 23 December, 2024 – Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today announced its growing presence in the Middle East with the establishment of a new regional headquarters (RHQ) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and general availability on Google Cloud in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to better meet the Kingdom’s data residency and sovereignty requirements so that data can reside within the country’s borders.

End Data Disparity initiative aims to improve quality data access and representation on a global scale to better support the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals on climate, social and health issues

Dubai, UAE, 27 November 2024 — Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today announced its ‘End Data Disparity’ initiative, which brings together global leaders from across industries, and the data capabilities and collective power of Snowflake’s ecosystem — including partners and customers — to help address and reduce disparities in data quality, availability and access. As part of the initiative, Snowflake has assembled an expert panel of data and technology experts from both public and private sectors, responsible for driving the initiative forward, by offering domain expertise and strategic guidance in addressing global data inequality.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates; November 13th 2024 – Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today announced new AI features to its platform, enabling developers to effortlessly build conversational apps for structured and unstructured data with high accuracy, efficiently batch inference of large language models (LLM) for natural language processing (NLP) pipelines, and train custom models with GPU-powered containers — all with built-in governance, access controls, observability, and safety guardrails ensuring that AI security and trust remain at the forefront.

The launches make it easier for companies to deliver simple, effective and reliable AI solutions for all data, including structured and unstructured data.