United Kingdom, Feb. 3 -- OpenAI and Snowflake have announced a $200 million, multi-year partnership aimed at bringing advanced generative AI directly into the heart of corporate data operations.

Under the deal, Snowflake will integrate models from OpenAI - including GPT-5.2 - into its Snowflake Cortex AI platform, making them available to more than 12,000 customers worldwide across all major cloud providers.

The move reflects growing demand from enterprises eager to deploy powerful AI tools on top of their own proprietary data, without sacrificing security or governance.

At the core of the partnership is a push toward so-called AI agents.

By combining OpenAI's models with Snowflake's data infrastructure, customers will be able to bui...