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The AI Tipping Point: What Telecommunications Leaders Need to Know for 2025

AI is proving that it’s here to stay. While 2023 brought wonder, and 2024 saw widespread experimentation, 2025 will be the year that telecommunications enterprises get serious about AI's applications. But it’s complicated: AI proofs of concept are graduating from the sandbox to production, just as some of AI’s biggest cheerleaders are turning a bit dour.

Shared Destiny with Snowflake Horizon Catalog Built-In Security

Security has been an integral capability of Snowflake since the company was founded. Through the customer-configurable security capabilities of the Snowflake Horizon Catalog, we empower security admins and chief information security officers (CISOs) to better protect their environments and centralize threat monitoring and role-based access controls across clouds.

Unlocking Geospatial Data in Snowflake: Store, Analyze, And Visualize At Scale

Snowflake provides for seamless handling of geospatial data, making it easier to work with location-based information directly in your data platform. In this video, we explore Snowflake’s native support for geospatial data, which allows you to store, process, and analyze spatial information at scale. Geospatial data is important because everything happens somewhere. By breaking down silos and combining spatial and non-spatial data, Snowflake empowers you to uncover valuable insights across a wide range of use cases —from mapping to location analytics to geospatial trends.

Demo | Snowflake Data Clean Rooms

Snowflake Data Clean Rooms empower organizations to collaborate on data in a privacy-conscious way directly within Snowflake. With an intuitive interface and a focus on simplifying secure data sharing, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms enables businesses to build and use clean rooms seamlessly, leveraging Snowflake’s powerful data platform. This solution eliminates unnecessary complexity and additional access fees, ensuring organizations can focus on deriving insights while maintaining data privacy. Learn more about how Snowflake Data Clean Rooms support privacy-preserving collaboration in this blog.

SwiftKV from Snowflake AI Research Reduces Inference Costs of Meta Llama LLMs up to 75% on Cortex AI

Large language models (LLMs) are at the heart of generative AI transformations, driving solutions across industries — from efficient customer support to simplified data analysis. Enterprises need performant, cost-effective and low-latency inference to scale their gen AI solutions. Yet, the complexity and computational demands of LLM inference present a challenge. Inference costs remain prohibitive for many workloads. That’s where SwiftKV and Snowflake Cortex AI come in.

The AI Tipping Point: What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know for 2025

AI is proving that it’s here to stay. While 2023 brought wonder, and 2024 saw widespread experimentation, 2025 will be the year that manufacturing enterprises get serious about AI's applications. But it’s complicated: AI proofs of concept are graduating from the sandbox to production, just as some of AI’s biggest cheerleaders are turning a bit dour.

The Advanced Guide to Unlocking Geospatial Insights in Snowflake

Over the last three geospatial-centric blog posts, we’ve covered the basics of what geospatial data is, how it works in the broader world of data and how it specifically works in Snowflake based on our native support for GEOGRAPHY, GEOMETRY and H3. Those articles are great for dipping your toe in, getting a feel for the water and maybe even wading into the shallow end of the pool. But there is so much more you can do with geospatial data in your Snowflake account!

Introducing One Million Minds + One Platform

AI and technology are reshaping the world we live and work in every day. It’s imperative that we equip people with the tools and skills they need to succeed in this rapidly changing landscape. In this video, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy announces a new company initiative to tackle the challenge. Called "One Million Minds + One Platform," its goal is to train and certify one million students and professionals in data and AI by 2029 and 100,000 users on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud by 2027.

Securing Snowflake With Network And Authentication Policies: Protect Your Account

In this video, we explore Network and Authentication Policies in Snowflake. These are account-level rules that control who can successfully connect to your Snowflake environment. Network Policies define allowed sources, determining which IP ranges can access your Snowflake account. Authentication Policies control access by enforcing Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication and other rules for secure logins.

Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake In January

This month's edition of Snow Report provides details on upcoming must-attend events, such as AI & Data Predictions 2025, Startup Demo Day, and Gen AI Day. The newsletter also contains some important product announcements, a list of recommended resources, and details about the launch of this year's Startup Challenge.