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Snowflake Summit 2024: Opening keynote

Sridhar Ramaswamy · Jensen Huang · Jun 3, 2024 · 35m · San Francisco, California

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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

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  1. 0:21

    Snowflake framed its next chapter as making AI easy for everyone, on the same simplicity it brought to data

  2. 9:29

    Polaris Catalog announced: an open catalog for Apache Iceberg, interoperable with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and other engines

  3. 10:12

    Ramaswamy committed to "permanently accelerating" delivery and getting features to GA faster, not only previews

  4. 16:05

    Cortex AI serves models from Google, Meta, Mistral AI, NVIDIA and Reka plus Snowflake's own Arctic family, fully managed

  5. 17:27

    Partner Coda Brain, a natural-language assistant over enterprise data built on Cortex AI, entered private preview

  6. 24:24

    Snowflake adopted NVIDIA AI Enterprise, bringing NeMo Retriever and accelerated computing to Cortex AI next to customer data

Announced

AnnouncedPolaris CatalogOpen catalog for Apache Iceberg with interoperability across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
AnnouncedNVIDIA AI Enterprise in Snowflake Cortex AINeMo Retriever and NVIDIA accelerated computing for Cortex AI and Snowpark Container Services

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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXg-HGfMCzY

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Photos: Ramaswamy11703, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Companies named: Coda, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, Nvidia, Reka, Snowflake

Last changed 2026-09-24.