The 2025 platform keynote moved Snowflake from answering questions to agents: Snowflake Intelligence for business users, Cortex AISQL to call models from SQL, Semantic Views for shared business meaning, plus Openflow for ingestion, dbt projects running natively, Adaptive Compute, a managed Postgres service and free SnowConvert AI migrations.
What it announced
Adaptive Compute · SnowflakeAutomatic cluster sizing and scalingPreview
Snowflake Openflow · SnowflakeManaged data integration for structured and unstructured sources, GA on AWS per the recapGA
dbt Projects on Snowflake · SnowflakeBuild, test and deploy dbt projects natively, with dbt FusionComing
Snowflake Postgres · SnowflakeManaged Postgres with Snowflake security, from the Crunchy Data acquisitionAnnounced
SnowConvert AI · SnowflakeFree SnowConvert plus AI-assisted migration testingAnnounced
Cortex AISQL · SnowflakeNatural-language AI operators inside SQLPreview
Semantic Views · SnowflakeShared business definitions for AI and BI tools, shareable on the MarketplacePreview
Snowflake Intelligence · SnowflakeAgents for business users over data, public preview soonComing
Keynotesby GlyphSridhar RamaswamyCEO, Snowflake
Sam AltmanCEO, OpenAI
Sarah GuoFounder and Managing Partner, Conviction