Sridhar Ramaswamy's first Summit as CEO set the next chapter as making AI easy for everyone on the AI Data Cloud, with a promise to ship to general availability faster. The headline launch was Polaris Catalog, an open catalog for Apache Iceberg, and Jensen Huang joined from Taipei to announce that Snowflake adopted NVIDIA AI Enterprise for Cortex AI.
What it announced
Polaris Catalog · SnowflakeOpen catalog for Apache Iceberg with interoperability across AWS, Google Cloud and AzureAnnounced
NVIDIA AI Enterprise in Snowflake Cortex AI · SnowflakeNeMo Retriever and NVIDIA accelerated computing for Cortex AI and Snowpark Container ServicesAnnounced
The product keynote ran through a long list of launches meant to match the "GA faster" promise: Iceberg tables and dynamic tables went GA, Snowflake Notebooks and the pandas API on Snowpark entered preview, and Cortex gained fine-tuning, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search for building chat apps over structured and text data.
Keynotesby Glyph