April 12, 2024 — Snowflake Cortex LLM Release Notes

We’re pleased to announce three changes that will make it easier for you to build generative AI workflows using Cortex LLM Functions.

  • The reka-flash model is now available for text completion tasks. reka-flash is a high-quality model optimized for fast processing. The model is now available is AWS US East (N. Virginia) and AWS US West (Oregon). For more information about this model, see reka.ai (https://www.reka.ai/).

  • The mixtral-8x7b model is now 56% more cost-efficient, with the credits per million tokens cut to 0.22 from 0.50.

  • The mixtral-8x7b model is now available for use in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) and Azure West Europe (Netherlands).

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