August 14, 2024 — Cortex Analyst –— Preview¶

With this release, we are pleased to announce the preview of Cortex Analyst, a fully-managed Snowflake Cortex feature that enables you to create applications capable of reliably answering business questions based on your structured data in Snowflake. With Cortex Analyst, business users can ask questions in natural language and receive direct answers without writing SQL.

Available as a convenient REST API, Cortex Analyst can be seamlessly integrated into any application, empowering data teams and developers to customize how and where users interact with results, while still benefiting from Snowflake’s integrated security and governance features, including role-based access controls (RBAC), to protect valuable data.

To deliver high text-to-SQL accuracy, Cortex Analyst uses an agentic AI setup powered by state-of-the-art LLMs and a user-defined semantic model. With Cortex Analyst, you can eliminate the complexities of model selection, architecture maintenance, GPU capacity planning, and more, accelerating the deployment of reliable conversational self-serve analytics solutions and significantly lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

For more information, see Cortex Analyst.