Dubai, United Arab Emirates – March 10, 2025 – Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft that will empower enterprises to build easy, efficient, and trusted AI-powered apps and data agents with OpenAI’s models directly in Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s fully managed AI service. Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, making OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models available for use on Microsoft Azure regions within Snowflake, and optimised to reason across audio, video, and text in real-time.

Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, enabling businesses to access OpenAI’s advanced models within Snowflake on Microsoft Azure regions. Optimised for real-time analysis across text, audio, and video, this integration allows enterprises to create secure, AI-powered data agents within Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud By bringing OpenAI’s models to Cortex AI through an integration with Azure OpenAI Service, Snowflake further solidifies its leadership in providing users with frontier AI models within the same unified governance framework as their data— ultimately saving businesses time and money.

• 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.