Snowflake Intelligence is a platform that helps enterprise users create and deploy dedicated 'data agents' for extracting relevant business insights from hosted data and third-party data sources beyond their data cloud instance.
The data agents can take actions across different tools and applications, such as Google Workspace and Salesforce.
The AI creation and deployment platform will live within the same cloud data warehouse or lakehouse provider, eliminating the need for another tool.
Snowflake has integrated AI capabilities on top of its core data platform, including Document AI, Cortex AI, and Snowflake Copilot.
Snowflake Intelligence expands these capabilities by enabling teams to set up enterprise-grade data agents that tap siloed third-party tools and structured/unstructured data sources across different systems.
The platform uses Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search (part of Cortex AI architecture) to deploy agents that accurately retrieve and process specific data assets from both unstructured and structured data sources to provide relevant insights.
The users interact with the agents in natural language, asking business-related questions while the agents identify the relevant internal and external data sources to provide answers.
Once the relevant data is surfaced, the user can ask data agents to take specific actions around the generated insights, like entering the insights into an editable form or uploading the file to their Google Drive.
Snowflake has not given a timeline on its availability, but it will go into private preview soon.
Snowflake Intelligence will be natively integrated with the company's Horizon Catalog at the foundation level, allowing users to run agents for insights right where they discover, manage, and govern their data assets.