Snowflake, a leading data cloud company, and Anthropic, an AI newcomer, have announced a multi-year strategic agreement worth up to $200 million. According to the contract, Snowflake will natively deploy Anthropic's Claude large model on its platform, offering a one-stop AI agent service for global enterprises, with plans to launch in the United States and European markets in Q1 2026.
Key Highlights of the Collaboration
- Ready to Use: Snowflake customers can call Claude3.5Sonnet and Haiku directly within their warehouse without exporting data, completing natural language queries, automated reports, and intelligent customer service.
- Mutual Optimization: Anthropic has customized a "long context" version for Snowflake, supporting reasoning on 150-page documents at once; Snowflake provides private computing clusters to ensure data stays within borders.
- Internal Trial: Snowflake plans to integrate Claude into finance, sales, and customer service processes, expecting to save 30% in operational costs and showcase it as a best practice for external display.
Market Positioning
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, said: "We want to give every enterprise top-tier generative AI capabilities without moving data." Industry insiders noted that traditional solutions require copying data to vector databases before calling APIs, while the new architecture places Claude directly in the warehouse, reducing deployment time by over 50%. Competitors may need to quickly follow the "cloud-based Agent" model.
Industry Impact
