Snowflake Cortex represents an intelligent, fully managed service designed to provide machine learning and AI solutions tailored to Snowflake users. Among its capabilities are:

• LLM Functions: These encompass SQL and Python functions harnessing large language models (LLMs). These functions facilitate tasks such as understanding, querying, translating, summarizing, and generating free-form text.
• ML Functions: Snowflake Cortex offers SQL functions dedicated to predictive analysis through machine learning. These functions aid in deriving insights from structured data, thereby expediting routine analytics tasks.

Snowflake Cortex integrates cutting-edge ML and AI solutions seamlessly into your data ecosystem, all within the secure confines of Snowflake's environment. Workloads utilizing Snowflake Cortex solutions can leverage the robust security, scalability, and governance features inherent to Snowflake.

The scalable infrastructure supporting Snowflake Cortex also drives additional intelligent features within Snowflake, presently undergoing private preview with select clientele. Reach out to your Snowflake account representative for details on gaining early access to any of the following functionalities:

• Document AI
• Universal Search
• Snowflake Copilot

LLM Functions

Snowflake Cortex's LLM functions harness large language models (LLMs) to derive insights from data stored in unstructured and semi-structured formats. Presently, the available capabilities encompass:

• Conducting intricate reasoning tasks with your textual data through COMPLETE.
• Extracting information from unstructured or semi-structured data using EXTRACT_ANSWER.
• Generating automatic synopses of text with SUMMARIZE.
• Analyzing the mood or tone of text with SENTIMENT.
• Translating documents into various languages with TRANSLATE.

Moreover, features including text embedding and vector comparison, facilitating semantic comparison of text documents, are currently undergoing private preview with select clients. For early access to these features, please reach out to your Snowflake account representative.

ML Functions

Snowflake Cortex ML functions equip analysts, data engineers, and business users with robust machine learning models designed for scalability and precision. We provide the algorithms; all you require is your dataset. Accessible via SQL, these features include:

• Forecasting: Identifies the factors within your data affecting a specific value (e.g., sales) and forecasts future values based on these factors.
• Anomaly Detection: Identifies potential outliers in your data by comparing them to a forecast for the same time period.
• Contribution Explorer: Identifies the factors influencing a particular value of interest.

Moreover, additional ML functionalities are currently undergoing private preview with selected clients. To explore early access to these features, please reach out to your Snowflake account representative:

• Classification function: Automatically categorizes records into two or more classes based on detected explanatory factors.
• Low-code web interface: Allows for the utilization of ML functions within Snowsight without the need for SQL coding.