Snowflake, a leading company in AI Data Cloud, and Anthropic, specialized in artificial intelligence research and safety, have announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership. The new agreement, valued at $200 million, will enable Anthropic’s Claude models to be available to over 12,600 customers worldwide through the Snowflake platform and across the three major clouds. Additionally, it includes a joint global marketing strategy focused on driving the adoption of AI agents within large corporations. Claude will also become a key model to empower Snowflake Intelligence, the company’s business intelligence agent designed to transform work by providing corporate knowledge through a reliable assistant that fosters curiosity, exploration, and innovation.
This expansion builds upon their previous collaboration, in which thousands of Snowflake customers already process trillions of tokens monthly with Claude via Snowflake Cortex AI. The next phase of cooperation aims to integrate advanced AI agents into Snowflake capable of performing complex, multi-stage analysis. These agents will leverage Claude’s reasoning capabilities and secure handling of sensitive data, enabling comprehension of extensive volumes of financial, operational, and customer data, among others, showcasing the analysis process rather than just the final answer. Combining this reasoning ability with Snowflake’s governed data environment will allow regulated industries—such as finance, healthcare, and life sciences—to move from pilot tests to production environments with full security.
For example, an asset management firm could use Snowflake Intelligence, powered by Claude, to develop an agent that unifies client portfolios, market data, and regulatory requirements, generating personalized investment recommendations within the secure and controlled environment of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
“Snowflake’s most strategic alliances are measured not just by scale but by the depth of innovation and the value we can co-create for our customers,” says Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake’s CEO. “Anthropic joins a very select group of partners with whom we have a multimillion-dollar investment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of joint execution for clients worldwide. Together, the combined power of Snowflake and Claude is raising the standard for how organizations deploy scalable, context-aware AI on their most critical enterprise data.”
“Companies have dedicated years to building secure and reliable data environments, and now they seek AI capable of operating within those environments without compromises. This partnership brings Claude directly into Snowflake, where that data already resides. It’s a significant step toward making cutting-edge AI genuinely useful for businesses,” comments Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-founder of Anthropic.
“We leverage Anthropic’s Claude models in Snowflake Cortex AI, and this has transformed the way we work with our clients, enabling financial AI agents to automate a higher percentage of their requests. Our interactions, especially with our largest and most demanding clients, are more efficient and effective overall. We can do things that previously were simply not feasible,” says Dave Lynch, Vice President of Engineering at Intercom. “We will continue to explore opportunities to build upon Snowflake’s strong security and governance foundations, creating impact for our customers and revenue for Intercom.”
Snowflake and Anthropic deliver AI ready for the enterprise environment
By integrating Anthropic’s Claude models directly into organizations’ critical and governed enterprise data within Snowflake, joint customers can accelerate deployment of AI agents that generate real value. Key benefits of this partnership include:
● Turn data into action: Snowflake Intelligence, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5, is a business intelligence agent that provides knowledge access to every user. It enables business users to analyze, reason, and extract insights from all their structured and unstructured data using only natural language prompts.
● Unlock comprehensive analysis with multimodal AI: With Snowflake Cortex AI Functions, users can leverage the latest Anthropic models, including Claude Opus 4.5, which Snowflake made available from day one, to query all kinds of data—from traditional numbers in tables to text, images, audio, and more—using SQL, the universal language they already know and master for data management.
● Create custom multi-agent solutions: Snowflake Cortex Agents enable users to build reliable, production-ready data agents that retrieve structured and unstructured data more accurately. Customers can enhance these data agents with Claude, ensuring precision, efficiency, and governance throughout each stage of the workflow.
● Integrate governance and observability: Using Anthropic’s models within Snowflake, Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides end-to-end governance and responsible AI controls, allowing teams to deploy AI agents into production with full confidence.
Snowflake also internally utilizes Claude Codede Anthropic to improve developer productivity and accelerate innovation across its engineering teams. The Claude models also power Snowflake’s internal Marketing AI Assistant, developed using Snowflake Intelligence, which helps sales teams centralize data organization-wide, ask natural language questions, and find relevant information to speed up sales cycles.