Anthropic and Snowflake Expand $200M Partnership to Forward Agentic AI Ambitions

Anthropic announced a significant expansion of its strategic partnership with Snowflake—entering a multi-year, $200 million agreement to not only make Anthropic’s Claude models available in the Snowflake platform to more than 12,600 global customers across Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure, but also establish a joint go-to-market (GTM) initiative focused on deploying AI agents across the world's largest enterprises.

The partnership enables enterprises to gain insights from both structured and unstructured data using Claude, while maintaining rigorous security standards, according to both companies.

"Snowflake's most strategic partnerships are measured not just in scale, but in the depth of innovation and customer value that we can create together," said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake. "Anthropic joins a very select group of partners where we have nine-figure alignment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of executing together for customers worldwide. Together, the combined power of Claude and Snowflake is raising the bar for how enterprises deploy scalable, context-aware AI on top of their most critical business data."

Snowflake already uses Claude widely for internal operations as well. Claude Code enhances developer productivity and innovation across Snowflake's engineering organization, while a Claude-powered GTM AI Assistant built on Snowflake Intelligence enables sales teams to centralize data, ask questions in natural language, and find the answers that speed up deal cycles.

Thousands of Snowflake customers already process trillions of Claude tokens per month through Snowflake Cortex AI.

The vendors said, the next phase of the partnership focuses on deploying AI agents capable of handling complex, multi-step analysis, powered by Claude's advanced reasoning and Snowflake's governed data and AI environment. Business users can ask questions in plain English. Claude figures out what data is needed, pulls it from across the company's Snowflake environment, and delivers the answer.

By combining Claude's reasoning capabilities with Snowflake's governed data environment, customers in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and life sciences can move from pilots to production with confidence, the vendors noted.

"Enterprises have spent years building secure, trusted data environments, and now they want AI that can work within those environments without compromise," said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. "This partnership brings Claude directly into Snowflake, where that data already lives. It's a meaningful step toward making frontier AI genuinely useful for businesses."

By combining Claude's reasoning capabilities with Snowflake's governed data and AI environment, customers across any industry can deploy agents that understand extensive context across customer data—and show their work rather than just retrieve an answer.

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