Snowflake on Unveiling Cortex AI

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today introduced Cortex AI Gateway2 and several AI security innovations that establish the foundation for trusted agent interoperability, enabling organizations to securely scale their agentic enterprises.Cortex AI Gateway addresses two of the biggest barriers to enterprise AI adoption today by helping organizations secure AI agents, while providing centralized visibility and control over AI consumption costs.

“As AI agents increasingly collaborate across enterprise data, apps, and platforms,” this morning’s news release said, “they introduce unprecedented security and governance risks, while driving growing AI consumption across models and workloads.

“Traditional security architectures were not designed for this level of cross-system agent activity, and organizations often lack a centralized way to govern AI usage. This requires a new security and cost model where trust enables interoperability across every AI interaction. Today, Snowflake is solidifying the foundation for a secure agent ecosystem where agents can interoperate across the enterprise with the trust, visibility, control, and cost oversight businesses need.

Snowflake is unveiling Cortex AI Gateway, a major advancement that enables enterprises to securely control, orchestrate, and govern both first-party AI agents built within Snowflake, such as Snowflake CoWork and Snowflake CoCo, and third-party AI agents developed on external platforms such as Claude Code and Cursor. Cortex AI Gateway gives enterprises a unified foundation to govern how agents access models, tools, MCP servers, and enterprise systems; intelligently route agent requests; and optimize AI consumption across models and workloads.

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