Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy Says “We Are The World’s Best Analytics Platform”
Snowflake says CoCo can help data teams finish work 5 to 10 times faster as it expands AI automation for business users.
- Snowflake introduced CoCo and CoWork AI agents at its Expedition event, designed to autonomously plan and complete background work for technical and business teams. These bots, currently in private preview, handle ongoing assignments like monitoring data pipelines.
- The company aimed to evolve its platform beyond simple analytics to software that understands business data and organizational context. To build trust, agents must comprehend how organizations uniquely operate and work within established governance controls.
- Agents inherit the user's specific access permissions, role context, and security restrictions, ensuring data remains protected. They check in with human users when critical decisions require approval, maintaining oversight without compromising automation.
- Organizations including Cisco, Klarent, and United Rentals are deploying these agents across operations. Klarent reported that migrating Spark workloads to Snowflake reduced total cost of ownership by 60% while cutting data pipelines from more than 10 hours to less than three.
- Snowflake CEO Ramaswamy claims the company has "clearly leapfrogged the competition" like Databricks, citing $9 billion in remaining performance obligations as evidence. Despite past innovation delays, he emphasizes measurable productivity gains as the platform's long-term value driver.
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Snowflake has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that autonomously plans and processes tasks in the background without separate instructions. The company plans to support enterprises in realizing "AI colleagues" that can be trusted to handle work, going beyond the level of simply answering questions. Snowflake stated, "AI is evolving from software that waits for prompts to a system that continuously executes tasks." ◇ Top
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy Says “We Are The World’s Best Analytics Platform”
For a weekend project, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy built himself another company. This one was fictional, with sales and marketing departments whose information overlapped. He wanted to work out how an AI agent should connect a campaign to the sales it generated. Finding the records was only the beginning. The software also needed to understand what that relationship meant to the people running the business. At Snowflake, he already has soft…
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = AI cloud data company Snowflake [develops] existing simple question-and-answer type artificial intelligence (AI) tools 24 hours ...
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