Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company that provides a highly scalable and secure platform for managing and analyzing data. Founded in 2012, the company has quickly become a leader in the data analytics market, serving a range of industries from finance to healthcare. Key executives include CEO Frank Slootman and President of Products Benoit Dageville. The company's main competitors include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

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Deep Research

Chaos and Competition: The Future of AI Agents in 2026

By The Information Staff · Nov 20, 2025 11:00am PST
The race to launch and successfully sell AI agents in 2026 will be decided by which companies can create a differentiated product in an environment where every firm is offering nearly identical AI agents. We asked Deep Research to explain how this competition will unfold. Here is the response. The race to launch and successfully sell AI agents in 2026 will be decided by which companies can...
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. Art by Clark Miller; Screenshot via YouTube
Exclusive

Databricks in Talks to Raise Capital at a Valuation Above $130 Billion

By Katie Roof and Amir Efrati · Nov 17, 2025 6:21pm PST · 1 comment
Databricks, a database provider whose tools help customers develop and use AI, is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130 billion, up around 30% from its valuation in a financing round just two months ago, according to two people involved in the discussion. The possible capital raise reflects investor interest in companies... Databricks, a database provider whose tools help customers develop and use AI, is in talks to...
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The Briefing

Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Cause and Cure

By Martin Peers · Nov 13, 2025 5:00pm PST
If you listen to tech executives nowadays, AI can solve all of the world’s problems. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman likes to talk about AI’s potential to cure cancer. Elon Musk the other day promised that Optimus robots—AI in a hardware form—would “eliminate poverty” and prevent crime. But will AI cause almost as many problems as it solves? When it comes... If you listen to tech executives nowadays, AI can solve all of the world’s problems. OpenAI CEO...
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From Snowflake to Sierra, Every Enterprise Software Firm Is Selling the Same AI Agents

By Aaron Holmes · Nov 12, 2025 6:00am PST · 14 comments
When Whoop’s analytics chief Matt Luizzi recently looked across the company’s tech stack, he saw the same thing everywhere: AI agents multiplying. Slack has one. So does Snowflake. Google Workspace, too. And they all promise to do the same jobs—dig through data, forecast sales, even message customers. “Truly every piece of software that we... When Whoop’s analytics chief Matt Luizzi recently looked across the company’s tech stack, he saw...
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Applied AI

When Good AI Isn’t Good Enough; Snowflake’s AI Agents Arrive

By Aaron Holmes and Amir Efrati · Nov 4, 2025 10:30am PST
Talking to business leaders about AI these days can often feel paradoxical. On one hand, AI is becoming a steady part of company software budgets, especially productivity tools like chatbots and AI coding software that individual employees use. On the other hand, there’s a persistent frustration that AI isn’t living up to the hype when it... Talking to business leaders about AI these days can often feel paradoxical. On one hand, AI...
Josh Klahr, a product management leader at Snowflake. Art by Clark Miller; YouTube.
Applied AI

Snowflake Tries to End the AI Data-Access Wars

By Amir Efrati and Kevin McLaughlin · Sep 25, 2025 10:44am PDT
Snowflake is reversing an incendiary trend of software incumbents such as Salesforce and Atlassian walling off data in their applications from artificial intelligence startups that threaten them.On Tuesday, Snowflake said a consortium of more than a dozen other enterprise app and database providers—including, ironically, Salesforce—have... Snowflake is reversing an incendiary trend of software incumbents such as Salesforce and...