AI data cloud corporations Snowflake said on the 3rd that it has formed a $200 million partnership with OpenAI. Under the deal, the two companies will work to expand enterprise AI services through a joint innovation and go-to-market (GTM) strategy.
Under the deal, OpenAI models, including GPT-5.2, will be built in as default features of Snowflake's AI services Intelligence and Cortex AI. The two companies plan to quickly roll out interoperability features, software development kit (SDK) integration, and joint workflows through close engineering collaboration. They will also support building state-of-the-art AI agents.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake CEO, said, "Through this collaboration, corporations will be able to build and deploy AI on a secure data platform with guaranteed governance by leveraging their own data, their most important asset." He added, "By combining Snowflake's enterprise data with OpenAI's world-class AI capabilities, we will help customers implement powerful and trustworthy AI agents," and "we will present a new AI standard that supports corporate innovation while maintaining security and compliance."
Fidji Simo, OpenAI applications institutional sector CEO, said, "Snowflake is a trusted platform that plays a key role in helping corporations manage their most important data and use it in real business," adding, "Through this partnership, by directly integrating OpenAI's advanced models into the Snowflake environment, it has become easier to build and deploy AI agents and applications, and it will help corporations bridge the gap between AI's potential and the business value it can actually create."