Snowflake and OpenAI have signed a multi-year, $200 million partnership to help large companies build and deploy AI applications using their own data.
Under the agreement, OpenAI’s models will be deeply integrated into Snowflake’s platform, making them directly available to Snowflake’s more than 12,600 enterprise customers across major cloud providers.
The partnership focuses on co-innovation and joint go-to-market efforts, with a strong emphasis on helping businesses deploy AI agents at scale.
“By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organisations to build and deploy AI on top of their most valuable asset using the secure, governed platform they already trust. Customers can now harness all their enterprise knowledge in Snowflake together with the world-class intelligence of OpenAI models, enabling them to build AI agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy. Together, we’re setting a new standard for AI innovation, helping businesses transform with confidence, while maintaining strong security and compliance standards,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake.
Bringing OpenAI models closer to enterprise data
As part of the deal, OpenAI becomes one of the primary AI model providers within Snowflake’s ecosystem. Companies using Snowflake will be able to access OpenAI models through Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence, allowing employees to analyse data, run research, and build AI-powered tools using natural language.
“Snowflake is a trusted platform that sits at the centre of how enterprises manage and activate their most critical data. This partnership brings our advanced models directly into that environment, making it easier to deploy AI agents and apps, so businesses can close the gap between what AI is capable of and the value they can create today,” said Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI.
This setup is designed to let businesses combine OpenAI’s models with their own governed, proprietary data without moving data outside Snowflake’s environment.
Key benefits of the partnership include accelerating joint product innovation, building custom, interoperable AI Agents, democratising data and insights with AI, enterprise-ready governance and reliability, and gaining deep insights with multimodal AI.
Focus on AI agents and everyday use
Snowflake and OpenAI say a key goal of the partnership is to accelerate the adoption of “agentic AI,” where AI systems can reason over data and take actions across business tools and workflows.
Employees will be able to ask questions in plain language, explore structured and unstructured data, and receive insights without writing code. The companies say this approach helps make AI a practical, everyday tool rather than a niche technology.
Snowflake emphasised that enterprise-grade security and governance remain central to the partnership. AI applications built on the platform will benefit from Snowflake’s data controls, compliance features, and reliability standards, including a 99.99% uptime service-level agreement.
This is aimed at reassuring enterprises that they can adopt advanced AI without compromising on data privacy, governance, or business continuity.
The partnership expands an existing collaboration between the two companies. OpenAI already uses Snowflake internally for data analytics and testing, while Snowflake employees use ChatGPT Enterprise to improve productivity and decision-making.
With this new agreement, both companies say they are moving closer to a shared goal: helping enterprises turn AI capabilities into real business value by leveraging the data they already trust.
