Pune: Snowflake announced a major set of product innovations at its annual Snowflake Summit 2025, aimed at revolutionizing how organizations manage, analyse, and activate their data in the AI-first era. These products span data engineering, compute, analytics, and agentic AI, designed to help businesses leverage their data without compromising control, governance, or simplicity.
Major products launched include:
- Snowflake Openflow – Simplifies the process of getting data from where it is created to where it can be used.
- Snowflake Standard Warehouse – Generation 2 and Snowflake Adaptive Compute- Deliver faster analytics performance to accelerate customer insights, without driving up costs.
- Snowflake Intelligence– Allows business users to harness AI data agents to analyze, understand, and act on structured and unstructured data.
- Snowflake Cortex AISQL– Embeds generative AI directly into customers’ queries, empowering teams to analyze all types of data and build flexible AI pipelines with familiar SQL syntax.
- Cortex Knowledge Extensions – Helps enterprises enrich their AI apps and agents with real-time news and content from trusted third-party providers.
“With our latest announcements, we’re showcasing how Snowflake is fundamentally redefining what organizations can expect from a modern data platform. These innovations are focused on helping businesses make AI and machine learning workflows easier, more connected, and more trusted for users of all abilities by democratizing access to data and eliminating the technical overhead that slows down business decision-making,” said Vijayant Rai, Managing Director-India, Snowflake.
Acquisition of Crunchy Data
Snowflake also announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, an open-source Postgres solutions platform. With this acquisition, Snowflake will launch Snowflake Postgres, an enterprise-grade, AI-ready PostgreSQL offering that integrates robust governance, security, and scalability standards into the AI Data Cloud.
This move is expected to strengthen Snowflake’s appeal to developers and enterprises needing secure, production-ready databases to support AI-driven applications. Early adopters like Blue Yonder and LandingAI are expected to benefit significantly from this tighter Postgres integration.
