US $ 200m

The funds behind the multiyear partnership between OpenAI and Snowflake

99.99 %

The uptime service-level agreement underpinning Snowflake’ s built-in business continuity and disaster recovery provision offsite backups. But as cloud-native AI agents begin reasoning over enterprise data, disaster recovery is starting to mean something different: the continuity of intelligence itself.

Snowflake’ s Cortex AI functions, underpinned by OpenAI models, allow enterprises to query, interpret and act on their data through natural language. That same environment also enables automated decisions and adaptive workflows – both of which can now play an active role in recovery.

For instance, an enterprise affected by a regional outage could trigger Snowflake-based AI agents to re-route dependencies, assess replication states

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