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Snowflake Summit 2024: Platform keynote

Benoit Dageville · Christian Kleinerman · Jun 4, 2024 · 1h 56m · San Francisco, California

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Summary

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.

Key themes: Data platforms, Governance, Agents · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said1:56:11
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  1. 27:48

    Dynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available

  2. 30:16

    Apache Iceberg tables became generally available, with Snowflake-managed or externally managed catalogs

  3. 34:14

    Microsoft Fabric OneLake support for Iceberg makes Snowflake data show up in Power BI, Teams and Excel both ways

  4. 45:26

    Horizon governance added data classification, custom and automatic classification, tag propagation and a Trust Center

  5. 1:24:20

    Snowflake Notebooks entered public preview, with a container runtime for GPUs and an inline Copilot

  6. 1:26:30

    Snowflake Copilot became generally available

  7. 1:41:32

    Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search were introduced to build chat experiences over structured tables and text documents

Announced

4 available the same day
GADynamic tablesDeclarative incremental transformation pipelines
GAApache Iceberg tablesSnowflake-managed or externally managed Iceberg tables in all clouds
GASnowpark Container ServicesGA on AWS, public preview on Azure
AnnouncedSnowflake TrailObservability for Snowpark: logs, metrics, traces and a log explorer
PreviewSnowflake NotebooksPublic preview, with an optional container runtime with GPUs
GASnowflake CopilotNatural-language SQL assistant
PreviewSnowpark pandas APIDistributed, pandas-compatible API
PreviewCortex Fine-TuningOne-command fine-tuning of base models on your data
AnnouncedCortex AnalystNatural-language questions over structured data for apps
ComingCortex SearchManaged hybrid search to build chatbots over text data, public preview soon

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EQpUv0U4Ac

On stage

Companies named: Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, Woodside Energy, Snowflake

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