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Snowflake (SNOW) Is Up 5.6% After Deepening Google Cloud AI Tie-Up - What's Changed

Simply Wall St·01/07/2026 06:24:50
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  • Snowflake Inc. recently announced it has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud, integrating Google’s Gemini 3 models directly into Snowflake Cortex AI so enterprises can build and run generative AI applications on governed data without moving it across platforms.
  • The partnership also extends Snowflake’s availability on Google Cloud into new regions, enhances co-selling and marketplace routes, and introduces Gen2 Warehouses on Axion-based C4A machines, which management describes as bringing meaningful price-performance improvements for enterprise workloads.
  • We’ll now examine how embedding Google’s Gemini models natively in Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud could influence the company’s long-term investment narrative.

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Snowflake Investment Narrative Recap

To own Snowflake, you need to believe its AI Data Cloud can stay central to how enterprises store, analyze, and activate data, even as competition and technology shift quickly. The Google Cloud expansion reinforces Snowflake’s AI story and may support its near term growth catalyst around AI driven workloads, but it does not materially change the key risk that AI and hyperscaler offerings could still disrupt or compress its core data platform economics.

Among recent announcements, the multi year partnership with Anthropic to bring Claude models into Snowflake sits closest to this new Gemini integration. Together, these moves highlight Snowflake’s push to be an AI model neutral platform, which could help deepen usage of Cortex AI and related products if customers increasingly want choice across leading models while keeping governance, security, and analytics in one place.

Yet behind the AI partnerships, investors should be aware that growing competition and unproven monetization of new AI products could still...

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Snowflake's narrative projects $7.8 billion revenue and $497.5 million earnings by 2028. This requires 23.8% yearly revenue growth and about a $1.9 billion earnings increase from -$1.4 billion today.

Uncover how Snowflake's forecasts yield a $281.73 fair value, a 20% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

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Thirteen members of the Simply Wall St Community value Snowflake between US$114.20 and US$281.73, underscoring how far opinions can stretch. As you weigh those views against Snowflake’s increasing AI focus and deepening hyperscaler competition, it is worth exploring several alternative scenarios for how its data and AI strategy might affect future performance.

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