Anthropic expands Snowflake partnership in $200M deal focused on enterprise AI deployment
Anthropic, the AI and research company behind the Claude family of models, has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Snowflake.
Snowflake provides a cloud-based data platform used by enterprises to store, process, and analyze structured and unstructured data within a governed environment.
The new multi-year, $200 million agreement broadens access to Claude across Snowflake’s global customer base and introduces a joint initiative aimed at deploying enterprise-grade AI agents at scale.
Claude is now available to more than 12,600 Snowflake customers across Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure. Anthropic states that the expanded partnership is designed to help organizations query structured and unstructured data through natural language while maintaining strict governance controls.
In the LinkedIn post, Anthropic says the agreement “helps businesses use Claude to quickly and easily get accurate answers from their trusted enterprise data, while maintaining rigorous security standards.”
Strategy focuses on enterprise AI agents and governed data access
Anthropic’s accompanying blog expands on the announcement, describing a joint go-to-market strategy centered on deploying AI agents for large enterprises. These tools use Claude’s reasoning capabilities to retrieve data from across an organization’s Snowflake environment and return results with what Snowflake describes as greater than 90 percent accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks.
The update reflects a wider shift in enterprise AI adoption toward agentic systems that automate multi-step analysis rather than single-query outputs. The tight integration with Snowflake’s governance layer positions the partnership as a route for regulated industries to move from experimentation to production, though questions remain about implementation timelines and internal readiness for AI-assisted workflows.
Anthropic CEO and Co-Founder Dario Amodei says, “Enterprises have spent years building secure, trusted data environments, and now they want AI that can work within those environments without compromise. This partnership brings Claude directly into Snowflake, where that data already lives. It's a meaningful step toward making frontier AI genuinely useful for businesses.”
Snowflake adopts Claude internally
The announcement notes that Snowflake also uses Claude internally across engineering and commercial teams. The company’s developers use Claude Code to support productivity, while sales teams use a Claude-powered AI Assistant built on Snowflake Intelligence to centralize information and surface insights through natural language queries.
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy says the partnership aligns with the company’s broader approach to innovation. “Snowflake's most strategic partnerships are measured not just in scale, but in the depth of innovation and customer value that we can create together. Anthropic joins a very select group of partners where we have nine-figure alignment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of executing together for customers worldwide.”
According to Anthropic, thousands of customers already process trillions of Claude tokens per month through Snowflake Cortex AI. The next stage focuses on organizations building custom, production-ready agents capable of reasoning across multimodal data using SQL.
Closing the announcement, Ramaswamy says, “Together, the combined power of Claude and Snowflake is raising the bar for how enterprises deploy scalable, context-aware AI on top of their most critical business data.”
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