At the briefing, Christian Kleinerman, executive vice president of product at Snowflake, said, “even though we’ve said it many times, that there is no AI strategy without data strategy, it’s been increasingly clear how customer after customer has been validating this sentiment. They say, ‘OK, I have access to a great model. But if I don’t have my data in order, if I don’t know governance, and if I don’t know what data sets I have, it is difficult to get value out of AI.’”
At the end of the day, he said, “what organizations really want is to be able to break down silos, eliminate copies, and be able to get as much value as possible from their data. And a lot of what we have done at Snowflake building the AI Data Cloud is about providing the choices for customers to be able to pursue the data architecture that they want.”
Snowflake’s Gultekin said security played a big role in the decision to partner with Anthropic. “Snowflake prioritizes security and privacy, and Anthropic is dedicated to building safe and reliable AI,” he said. “Claude is now running inside the Snowflake security boundary, so Snowflake customers can build and deploy AI systems while keeping their data governed.”
