India, Feb. 3 -- Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a USD 200 million, multi-year partnership that could reshape how enterprises deploy artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The agreement focuses on bringing OpenAI's advanced models natively into Snowflake's platform, allowing companies to build AI applications directly on top of their governed enterprise data.

The collaboration combines Snowflake's position as a widely used enterprise data platform with OpenAI's large language models, including GPT-5.2. The goal is to make AI agents easier to deploy, secure by default, and usable across everyday business workflows.

A key outcome of the deal is first-party access to OpenAI models for Snowflake's 12,600 customers worldwide. These model...