Key Highlights:
- OpenAI has signed a multi-year partnership deal worth $200 million with Snowflake to bring GPT-5.2 and AI agents directly into enterprise data workflows.
- Businesses can now build AI applications and query data in natural language without moving data or setting up complex pipelines.
- Early adopters like Canva and WHOOP are already leveraging the integration to accelerate AI features and improve decision-making.
OpenAI entered into multiple partnerships last year, and now it has kicked off February 2026 with yet another one. OpenAI today announced that it has signed a multi-year deal worth $200 million with a leading cloud-native data platform provider called Snowflake.
OpenAI models will integrate directly into Snowflake’s enterprise data platform
As part of this deal, OpenAI’s frontier AI models now directly integrate into Snowflake’s enterprise data platform. OpenAI says that with this partnership, both companies want to help businesses deploy AI agents and generate insights straight from their own data, without complex setup or custom pipelines.
Under the agreement, OpenAI becomes a core model provider inside Snowflake’s AI stack. Enterprise customers can now access models like GPT-5.2 through Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence. This will apparently allow AI to operate directly where data already lives.
The idea here is quite simple: rather than moving data to external tools, companies can build AI applications and agents inside Snowflake, grounded in governed, secure datasets. Employees can also query business data in natural language, with Snowflake Intelligence handling retrieval, analysis, and summarization automatically, without the need for SQL.
Snowflake says the integration lowers the barrier to enterprise AI adoption. As a result, teams can analyze structured data, documents, images, and even audio using OpenAI models called directly from SQL via Cortex AI Functions. In other words, we can say that AI becomes part of existing workflows rather than an add-on.
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Here’s what executives say about the partnership
“By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organizations to build and deploy AI on top of their most valuable asset using the secure, governed platform they already trust,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake. “Customers can now harness all their enterprise knowledge in Snowflake together with the world-class intelligence of OpenAI models, enabling them to build AI agents that are powerful, responsible, and trustworthy. Together, we’re setting a new standard for AI innovation, helping businesses transform with confidence while maintaining strong security and compliance standards.”
Speaking about the partnership, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, said, “Snowflake is a trusted platform that sits at the center of how enterprises manage and activate their most critical data. This partnership brings our advanced models directly into that environment, making it easier to deploy AI agents and apps, so businesses can close the gap between what AI is capable of and the value they can create today.”
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Early adopters like Canva and WHOOP validate the enterprise AI integration
As noted in the announcement, early customers are already leveraging the benefits. Canva, one of the early adopters, says that the combination helps it move faster on visual AI features while maintaining performance and data control. WHOOP, another early adopter, noted that Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Agents are improving internal decision-making, with OpenAI models adding deeper reasoning and analysis.
Both OpenAI and Snowflake have also said that they have plans for future collaboration around agent workflows and application development using OpenAI’s Apps SDK and AgentKit. Snowflake will also continue using ChatGPT Enterprise internally. With over one million businesses already using OpenAI and more than 12,600 companies running on Snowflake, this partnership could reshape where enterprise AI is heading next. Speaking of the company news, OpenAI is also rolling out an AI-based age prediction system globally to automatically restricts sensitive content for any minor account.
