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The updates include a new Internal Marketplace and AI-powered Object Descriptions using Copilot.
The new chatbot features include Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and updates to Cortex Coast Guard.
Snowflake expects the updates and observability features to simplify devops and accelerate development.
With its plan to make its Polaris data catalog open source, Snowflake hopes the new offering will be seen as vendor-neutral, boosting its attractiveness when compared to Databricks’ Unity Catalog.
The acquisition would help Snowflake deliver evaluation and monitoring capabilities for LLM-based applications and machine-learning models for customers.
BigQuery’s update will make it easier to prepare data for AI with speech-to-text and document processing.
The cost management feature, which is still in private preview, is expected to help enterprises optimize their expenditure on Snowflake.
Cortex is designed to help streamline the development of data-driven applications, use cases, AI and ML models, and foundation models from Snowpark.
The company has also integrated Databricks’ Unity Catalog governance tool to provide an additional metastore alongside AWS Glue, Hive HMS, and the Galaxy Metastore.
The industry-specific data cloud is designed to help government entities meet security and compliance standards.