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AI data cloud giant Snowflake has extended its partnership with AI developer Anthropic in a $200MN deal that brings Claude-powered AI agents deeper into Snowflake Cortex AI, helping enterprises analyze and act on customer data more effectively. The expanded partnership will drop Claude models straight into the Snowflake platform for more than 12,600 customers across the three major clouds and launch a joint global go-to-market (GTM) initiative push aimed at scaling AI agents across some of the world’s biggest enterprises. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is stepping in as the brains behind Snowflake’s enterprise intelligence agent, Snowflake Intelligence, to essentially provide a single, trusted AI that pulls together everything an enterprise knows and helps teams innovate more easily. Users can analyze, reason and extract insights from structured and unstructured data using simple natural language prompts, turning data into actionable knowledge.