Snowflake has signed a multi-year, 200 million dollar partnership with AI research lab Anthropic to embed the Claude family of large language models directly into its data cloud platform for more than 12,600 global customers. The expanded deal deepens an earlier collaboration and is framed around delivering “agentic” AI for complex enterprise workflows.
Under the agreement, Anthropic’s upcoming Claude Sonnet 4.5 model will power Snowflake Intelligence, the company’s flagship enterprise AI agent designed to answer questions across structured and unstructured data in natural language. Customers will also gain access to Claude Opus 4.5 via Snowflake Cortex AI to run multimodal analysis on text, images, audio, and tabular data.
Snowflake co‑founder and CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said Anthropic joins a small circle of partners with “nine‑figure alignment” and deep product‑level co‑innovation aimed at customers worldwide. Executives argue that combining Snowflake’s governed data environment with Claude’s advanced reasoning will let enterprises deploy scalable, context‑aware AI directly on top of their most sensitive business information.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said enterprises have invested years in securing their data estates and now want AI systems that operate inside those boundaries without compromising privacy or governance. By running Claude natively inside Snowflake, the companies aim to reduce data movement, simplify compliance in regulated industries, and make “frontier” AI practically useful for day‑to‑day business tasks.
The partnership positions Snowflake Intelligence as a central interface where business users can ask complex questions in plain language, explore the “why” behind performance metrics, and trigger recommended actions without needing SQL expertise. Developers and data teams, meanwhile, can use Cortex AI functions and Claude models to build custom agents that orchestrate workflows, generate code, and automate multi‑step analytic
Snowflake and Anthropic are pitching the agreement as a joint go‑to‑market push to bring AI agents into core enterprise operations, from financial services and healthcare to life sciences and retail. Thousands of Snowflake customers already process trillions of Claude tokens each month, and the new phase focuses on moving more AI projects from pilot experiments into production deployments.
The deal also underscores Anthropic’s rapid ascent as an enterprise‑focused AI provider, in contrast to rival OpenAI’s more consumer‑driven growth strategy. In recent months, Anthropic has signed large rollouts with Deloitte, giving access to hundreds of thousands of employees, and with IBM, which is embedding Claude into its software portfolio for corporate customers.
Investor interest has been buoyed by the announcement, with Snowflake highlighting the AI partnership alongside stronger‑than‑expected quarterly revenue and improving profitability metrics. A July Menlo Ventures survey found enterprises already preferred Anthropic’s models over competing AI offerings, suggesting the expanded Snowflake deal could further cement Claude as a default choice for regulated, data‑intensive organizations.
