No Location, February 2, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, has announced a new collaboration with OpenAI to enable global enterprises to unlock greater value from their proprietary data with AI. The multi-year partnership agreement totals $200 million.
This agreement formalizes the commitment of both Snowflake and OpenAI to co-innovation and joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies to deploy AI agents across global enterprises. The companies will develop and deploy customized AI solutions for joint enterprise customers to deliver a tangible return on investment.
The direct, first-party partnership agreement also makes OpenAI models natively available to Snowflake’s 12,600 global customers within Snowflake Cortex AI across all three major clouds. This allows global organizations like Canva and WHOOP to bring OpenAI models to their enterprise data for research and insights. OpenAI models like GPT-5.2 will be accessible within Snowflake Intelligence, the enterprise intelligence agent that empowers employees to securely access, analyze, and act on their organization’s knowledge using natural language.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, said that Snowflake enables organizations to build and deploy AI using their data with a secure, governed platform by bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data. He added that customers can harness their enterprise knowledge in Snowflake with the intelligence of OpenAI models, which allows them to build AI agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy. Ramaswamy stated that, together, the companies are setting a new standard for AI innovation, helping businesses transform with confidence while maintaining strong security and compliance standards.
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, said that Snowflake is a platform for enterprises to manage and activate critical data. Simo added that this partnership brings the company’s advanced models directly into that environment, making it easier to deploy AI agents and apps. This will allow businesses to close the gap between what AI is capable of and the value they can create.
Helen Crossley, Head of Data Science at Canva, said that both OpenAI and Snowflake have played key roles in how the company empowers its users with creative tools, as they scale their visual AI offering on Canva. Crossley added that Snowflake has been foundational to how they manage and activate data, and they are excited to explore leveraging OpenAI models in Snowflake Cortex AI. The ability to bridge advanced AI models with enterprise data allows them to move quickly and test new ideas, without compromising on security or performance, according to Crossley.
Matt Luizzi, Senior Director of Business Analytics at WHOOP, said that speed and precision in decision-making are critical as WHOOP continues to scale. He added that rolling out Snowflake Intelligence to their employees and developing Cortex Agents has provided a secure and governed way for WHOOP to analyze data and make decisions. With OpenAI’s models available directly within Snowflake Cortex AI, they can enhance those agents with reasoning and analysis, while maintaining strong security and governance. This partnership will help them continue to make AI a practical, everyday tool for the business, according to Luizzi.
Benefits of the partnership include:
- Accelerating Joint Product Innovation: Snowflake and OpenAI teams will partner to bring new features that leverage OpenAI Apps SDK, AgentKit, and APIs that support shared enterprise workflows.
- Building Custom, Interoperable AI Agents: Snowflake and OpenAI enable enterprises to build state-of-the-art AI agents that reason over governed data and take action across tools and apps. Powered by Cortex AI, these agents run directly on enterprise data.
- Democratizing Data and Insights with AI: Powered by OpenAI models like GPT-5.2, Snowflake Intelligence is an enterprise intelligence agent that gives every employee access to trusted insights. It enables business users to query, interpret, and draw meaning from their structured and unstructured data with natural language.
- Enterprise-Ready Governance and Reliability: Snowflake provides built-in business continuity and disaster recovery with a 99.99% uptime service-level agreement, helping ensure that enterprises’ AI initiatives don’t get disrupted by outages or disasters. Users can tap into the power of OpenAI models alongside their proprietary data in Snowflake, all while benefiting from the governance and responsible AI controls that Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides.
- Gaining Deep Insights with Multimodal AI: With Snowflake Cortex AI Functions, users can tap into the latest OpenAI models to analyze data. From rows and columns to text, images, and audio, teams can explore it all using SQL.
This partnership builds on the companies’ existing collaboration, with OpenAI leveraging Snowflake as a secure, scalable data platform for experiment tracking, analytics, and testing.
Snowflake leverages OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise product internally, empowering employees to harness AI in their day-to-day work and accelerate productivity.
Source: Snowflake
