Snowflake’s $200 million OpenAI deal plugs GPT-5.2 into Cortex AI as enterprise agents move closer to data
Snowflake said on Monday it has struck a $200 million partnership with OpenAI to bring the ChatGPT maker’s models into Snowflake’s data cloud products, including Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence. The deal lands as cloud data platforms — where companies store a lot of their most sensitive information — become a battleground for generative AI. Snowflake said customers are moving from basic chatbots to AI agents, software that can take steps across systems, and they want that automation tied to governed data, meaning access is controlled and auditable. Rival Databricks has been building its own agent tools and recently raised $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation, Reuters reported.