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Data Governance and Security in AI Initiatives

According to a recent MIT Technology Review Insights report, "Data Strategies for AI Leaders," 59% of respondents cited data governance, security, or privacy as a challenge to deploying generative AI. For today’s enterprises, trust and security are paramount to the success of AI initiatives. With OpenAI’s models available directly in Cortex AI through Azure OpenAI Service, enterprises benefit from Snowflake’s built-in data governance, access controls, and monitoring, enabling customers to protect their most sensitive information.

Seamless Integration of Structured and Unstructured Data

With OpenAI’s models in the AI Data Cloud, joint customers of Snowflake and Microsoft can now seamlessly combine structured and unstructured data to deliver a richer, more engaging user experience. OpenAI’s models will be available on select Microsoft Azure regions in the United States, with plans to expand globally. In addition to OpenAI’s models, Snowflake offers various models from leading providers, including Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral, and more, alongside Snowflake’s Arctic open-source language and embedding models.

Integration with Azure AI Foundry

Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, making OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models available for use on Microsoft Azure regions within Snowflake, and optimized to reason across audio, video, and text in real-time. "We’re expanding our long-standing partnership with Microsoft to deliver the best of OpenAI’s innovations directly to our customers, further advancing our promise to bring easy, efficient, and trusted AI to enterprises around the world," said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake.

Leadership in AI Governance and Security

By bringing OpenAI’s models to Cortex AI through an integration with Azure OpenAI Service, Snowflake further solidifies its leadership in providing users with frontier AI models within the same unified governance framework as their data. Snowflake’s cross-region and cross-cloud AI inference also enables global customers to seamlessly access OpenAI’s models from any cloud or region, without needing complex integrations or manual setup. Access to these models is secured with Snowflake’s strong security guarantees through deep integrations with Microsoft Azure, providing protected connections for customers on any cloud provider.

Empowering Enterprises with AI Differentiation

OpenAI’s models provide advanced reasoning and instruct capabilities, allowing users to quickly build scalable AI apps and data agents that deliver accurate, grounded insights using their enterprise data. Snowflake customers achieve this because OpenAI’s models run within the security boundary of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. Snowflake Horizon Catalog’s strong enterprise-grade compliance, security, privacy, discovery, and collaboration capabilities natively integrated into Cortex AI allow users to focus on driving impact with OpenAI’s models.

Partnership with Azure OpenAI Service

"Enterprises are looking to leverage their proprietary data to create AI differentiation in ways that bring the richest experiences to the world, and the Snowflake partnership with Azure OpenAI Service through Azure AI Foundry will empower our joint customers to deliver intuitive and trustworthy app experiences even faster," said Asha Sharma, CVP, Head of Product, Microsoft AI Platform. "It’s our shared data-centric approach to AI that helps break down barriers to production for businesses of all sizes."

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• Published On: Mar 3, 2025, at 11:25 AM IST

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