Snowflake Inks Deal With Microsoft for OpenAI Access
**Snowflake Inks Deal With Microsoft for OpenAI Access**
By Kevin McLaughlin
a day ago
Source: The Information
Database provider Snowflake has expanded its existing partnership with Microsoft to let Snowflake customers access OpenAI's artificial intelligence directly from the Azure cloud service.
The deal, which is similar to the one Snowflake struck with Anthropic, OpenAI's main rival, in November, shows how AI firms are relying in part on enterprise software firms to reach new customers, and how those software firms need the AI firms to stay relevant as more customers develop custom AI applications for their employees.
By accessing OpenAI models within Snowflake's database, customers can avoid using the OpenAI API in a way that might expose their data to other parties over the internet, said a Snowflake employee. Snowflake customers will also be able to pay to use OpenAI models through their Snowflake bill as opposed to having two separate bills, this person said.