Snowflake Unveils New AI, Governance and Interoperability Innovations to Accelerate the Agentic Enterprise
Snowflake has announced a major wave of AI, governance and interoperability innovations at Snowflake Summit 2026, introducing new capabilities across CoCo, CoWork and Horizon Catalog. The updates are designed to help organizations build, govern and scale trusted AI while accelerating the shift toward autonomous, agent-driven enterprise operations.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2026: At Snowflake Summit 2026, Snowflake unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence, governance and interoperability innovations aimed at helping organizations accelerate their transition toward the agentic enterprise.
The announcements focus on enabling businesses to build, govern and operationalize AI from a single platform by bringing together enterprise data, business context, governance controls and AI-powered automation. As enterprises increasingly move beyond AI experimentation and toward autonomous operations, Snowflake says its latest capabilities are designed to provide a trusted foundation for deploying AI at scale.
“The next phase of enterprise AI will be defined by how effectively organizations connect intelligence, trusted data and action,” said Vijayant Rai, Managing Director – India, Snowflake. “Our latest innovations provide a trusted foundation for organizations to build AI faster, govern it securely and enable seamless collaboration between people and AI agents across the enterprise.”
Snowflake CoCo Expands AI-Powered Development
Snowflake introduced new capabilities for Snowflake CoCo, formerly known as Cortex Code, enhancing its AI-powered development experience for software teams. The platform now offers expanded integrations across desktop and mobile environments, Slack, VS Code, Claude Code and Microsoft Excel.
The company also announced Snowflake Datastream, a fully managed Apache Kafka-based streaming service designed to support real-time AI applications and autonomous agents through continuously updated data streams. Snowflake says the combination of CoCo and Datastream simplifies the development and deployment of AI-driven applications within a governed environment.
Snowflake CoWork Brings AI to Everyday Business Workflows
Snowflake also expanded Snowflake CoWork, previously known as Snowflake Intelligence, with new capabilities aimed at helping employees move from insights to action more quickly.
New additions include Cortex Sense, Artifacts, Deep Research, User Skills and personalization features that deliver context-aware AI experiences across business functions. The company also introduced Cortex Training, a fully managed service that enables organizations to train and customize foundation models directly within the Snowflake platform.
According to Snowflake, these enhancements are designed to improve decision-making, workflow automation and proactive intelligence across enterprises.
Horizon Catalog Strengthens Governance and Security
To support trusted AI deployments, Snowflake announced several governance and security enhancements within Snowflake Horizon Catalog.
Among the new capabilities is Horizon Context, which provides consistent business context across users, applications and AI agents. Snowflake also introduced Agent Identity and new enhancements to the Snowflake Trust Center, offering greater visibility, governance and security controls for enterprise AI environments.
The company further announced Adaptive Compute, a capability that automatically optimizes infrastructure resources in real time to improve application and AI performance without requiring manual intervention.
Advancing Open and Interoperable Data Ecosystems
Snowflake also expanded its interoperability strategy, enabling organizations to securely access, govern and analyze data across Snowflake, external data lakes and open ecosystems without moving or duplicating information.
Key announcements include support for Apache Iceberg v3, Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg Tables, external engine access management and the Iceberg REST Scan Plan API. These capabilities are supported by a unified governance framework powered by Horizon Catalog and Apache Polaris.
Additionally, Snowflake introduced Automatic Data Agents and Agent Sharing, allowing organizations to transform shared datasets into governed conversational AI agents while maintaining security and compliance controls.
With the latest announcements, Snowflake is positioning its platform as a unified foundation for organizations looking to build, govern and scale trusted AI while enabling seamless collaboration between people, applications and autonomous AI agents.