Snowflake and Anthropic deepen enterprise AI push
Snowflake and Anthropic are expanding the use of AI agents across corporate workflows as businesses shift from experimental generative AI projects towards systems capable of analysing governed data and carrying out multi-step tasks inside production environments. The collaboration is increasingly centred on Snowflake Cortex Agents, which combine Anthropic’s Claude models with Snowflake’s…
Snowflake and Anthropic are expanding their enterprise AI partnership, focusing on Snowflake Cortex Agents. These agents combine Anthropic's Claude models with Snowflake's enterprise data, governance and security infrastructure. Cortex Agents can retrieve information, reason across data, and take actions through connected business applications without moving sensitive information outside the Snowflake environment.
The collaboration has expanded from a $200 million agreement in December 2025, covering over 12,600 Snowflake customers processing trillions of Claude tokens monthly. Snowflake has added support for Model Context Protocol connections, enabling agents to interact with platforms like Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Salesforce, Google Workspace, and Slack.
The partnership targets a broader transition from AI systems that merely answer questions to software agents capable of performing operational work such as analyzing sales trends, generating reports, and updating customer records. Governance is a central focus as companies address the security implications of AI agents interacting with business systems.
Snowflake's architecture applies existing access policies, audit controls, and data-isolation rules to agent activity. The Cortex AI Gateway, introduced in July, provides central oversight of agent access, token consumption, spending limits, and records of actions, reflecting the multi-model nature of enterprise AI.
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