Snowflake Cortex AI Adds OpenAI GPT 5.6 in Private Preview
Snowflake announces the private preview availability of OpenAI GPT 5.6 on Snowflake Cortex AI, making OpenAI's latest frontier models accessible within the secure Snowflake perimeter. These models, including GPT 5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, offer significant improvements in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work, along with better cost-performance. This integration enables developers, analysts, and builders to leverage advanced AI capabilities for use cases such as accelerating development with CoCo, building personal work agents with CoWork, and creating scalable AI pipelines using Cortex AI Functions and REST API.
- →Enhanced AI Coding with Snowflake CoCo
- →Transforming Workflows with Snowflake CoWork
- →Scalable AI Pipelines and Application Development
- →OpenAI GPT 5.6 Private Preview on Snowflake Cortex AI
Features (3) ›
- Enhanced AI Coding with Snowflake CoCo
The integration of GPT 5.6 with Snowflake CoCo, the AI coding agent, enables improved reasoning, code generation, and support for complex, long-running tasks. This allows data engineers, analysts, and builders to quickly transform natural language into production-ready pipelines and AI agents, directly within the Snowsight interface, CLI, and local dev tools.
- Transforming Workflows with Snowflake CoWork
Snowflake CoWork can now leverage GPT 5.6 to extend its foundation for creating advanced personal work agents. These agents can reason across complex data, write and execute code with greater autonomy, and orchestrate analytical and operational workflows, fostering a data-driven culture for all employees.
- Scalable AI Pipelines and Application Development
GPT 5.6 models can be used with Cortex AI Functions for building scalable AI pipelines across multimodal enterprise data using SQL, offering high-performance processing at lower costs. Additionally, developers can use the Cortex REST API to build agentic enterprise applications within the Snowflake security perimeter, leveraging new capabilities like adjustable effort levels for model tasks.
Notes (1) ›
- OpenAI GPT 5.6 Private Preview on Snowflake Cortex AI
OpenAI GPT 5.6, including models like Sol, Terra, and Luna, is now available in private preview on Snowflake Cortex AI. These models provide notable improvements in agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, biology, and cybersecurity, with Terra and Luna offering competitive performance at lower costs.
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