Summit 2024 keynote
Sridhar Ramaswamy · Jensen Huang · Jun 3, 2024 · 35m · San Francisco, California
Summary
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.
Key themes: Data platforms, Open source, AI infrastructure · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Snowflake framed its next chapter as making AI easy for everyone, on the same simplicity it brought to data0:21
- 2Polaris Catalog announced: an open catalog for Apache Iceberg, interoperable with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and other engines9:29
- 3Ramaswamy committed to "permanently accelerating" delivery and getting features to GA faster, not only previews10:12
- 4Cortex AI serves models from Google, Meta, Mistral AI, NVIDIA and Reka plus Snowflake's own Arctic family, fully managed16:05
- 5Partner Coda Brain, a natural-language assistant over enterprise data built on Cortex AI, entered private preview17:27
- 6Snowflake adopted NVIDIA AI Enterprise, bringing NeMo Retriever and accelerated computing to Cortex AI next to customer data24:24
Announced
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Polaris CatalogOpen catalog for Apache Iceberg with interoperability across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure | Announced |
| NVIDIA AI Enterprise in Snowflake Cortex AINeMo Retriever and NVIDIA accelerated computing for Cortex AI and Snowpark Container Services | Announced |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXg-HGfMCzY
- Sridhar RamaswamyCEO, Snowflake
- Jensen HuangFounder and CEO, NVIDIA
Companies named: Coda, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, Nvidia, Reka, Snowflake
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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