Snowflake Cortex is a fully managed service that enables organizations to discover, analyze, and build AI applications in the Data Cloud. It provides access to industry-leading AI models, LLMs (large language models), and vector search functionality, making it easy to securely run LLMs inside Snowflake.
Snowflake Cortex is designed to help streamline the development of data-driven applications, use cases, AI and ML models, and foundation models from Snowpark. It is available in private preview as of November 2023.
Snowflake Cortex offers a number of benefits, including:
Industry-leading AI models and LLMs: Snowflake Cortex provides access to a growing set of serverless functions that enable inference on industry-leading generative LLMs such as Meta AI's Llama 2 model, task-specific models to accelerate analytics, and advanced vector search functionality.
Fast and easy LLM app development: Snowflake Cortex makes it possible to build LLM apps in minutes without any integrations, manual LLM deployment, or GPU-based infrastructure management.
Secure: Snowflake Cortex is built on the Snowflake platform, which is known for its security and compliance features.
Here are some examples of how Snowflake Cortex can be used:
Translate text: Snowflake Cortex can be used to translate text from one language to another in seconds.
Generate creative content: Snowflake Cortex can be used to generate creative content, such as poems, code, scripts, and musical pieces.
Build contextualized apps: Snowflake Cortex can be used to build contextualized apps that understand the unique nuances of a business and its data.
Accelerate analytics: Snowflake Cortex can be used to accelerate analytics by providing access to task-specific AI models.
Snowflake Cortex is a powerful tool that can help organizations to get more value from their enterprise data. It is still in private preview, but it is expected to be released to the public in the near future.
