Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and Anthropic, a leader in AI safety and research, have announced a substantial expansion of their strategic collaboration. Under a multi-year, $200 million agreement, Anthropic’s Claude AI models will now be directly accessible in the Snowflake platform for over 12,600 enterprise customers across Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure. In addition, the partnership introduces a collaborative go-to-market strategy designed to deploy advanced AI agents at scale within leading global organizations.
The expanded alliance enables businesses to extract meaningful insights from both structured and unstructured data leveraging Claude’s reasoning capabilities while operating within the trusted and secure governance framework of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. Snowflake itself utilizes Claude internally to boost productivity, employ AI-assisted coding, and accelerate sales cycles using a Claude-powered GTM AI Assistant. Thousands of existing Snowflake customers already process trillions of Claude tokens monthly via Snowflake Cortex AI. The next phase will enhance multi-step, agentic workflows capable of performing complex analysis with high accuracy.
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The partnership promises particular value for regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and life sciences, enabling enterprises to transition securely from pilot projects to full-scale production deployments. Business users can interact with their data in natural language, allowing Claude to identify the required datasets across Snowflake environments and return precise answers efficiently.
Leadership Perspectives
“Enterprises have spent years building secure, trusted data environments, and now they want AI that can work within those environments without compromise,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic. “This partnership brings Claude directly into Snowflake, where that data already lives. It’s a meaningful step toward making frontier AI genuinely useful for businesses.”
Commenting on the collaboration, Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, noted:
“Snowflake’s most strategic partnerships are measured not just in scale, but in the depth of innovation and customer value that we can create together. Anthropic joins a very select group of partners where we have nine-figure alignment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of executing together for customers worldwide. Together, the combined power of Claude and Snowflake is raising the bar for how enterprises deploy scalable, context-aware AI on top of their most critical business data.”
Delivering Enterprise-Ready AI
Key advantages of the enhanced partnership include:
- Enterprise Intelligence Powered by Claude: Claude Sonnet 4.5 powers Snowflake Intelligence, enabling natural-language insights across enterprise data.
- Multimodal Data Analysis: Through Snowflake Cortex AI Functions, organizations can query text, images, audio, and structured tabular data using SQL.
- Custom Multi-Agent Development: Snowflake Cortex Agents facilitates the creation of production-ready AI agents powered by Claude.
- Governance and Compliance: The Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides end-to-end governance and responsible AI monitoring, helping regulated industries move beyond experimentation.
Early Impact and Next Steps
Clients including Simon Data and Intercom have already realized benefits from this integration, using Claude-powered workflows to derive deeper insights with secure governance. To help enterprises get started, Snowflake and Anthropic have made deployment resources available through a quickstart guide and enterprise-specific documentation.
By integrating Claude directly into Snowflake’s platform where enterprise data already resides the partnership sets a new standard for scalable, secure, and context-aware AI adoption across industries.
