November 04, 2024 — Classify Text (Snowflake Cortex LLM Function) — General Availability¶

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Snowflake Cortex AI CLASSIFY_TEXT function. CLASSIFY_TEXT is purpose-built to help you easily classify text records such as emails, call transcripts, and product reviews into categories relevant to your business.

CLASSIFY_TEXT delivers state-of-the art zero-shot text classification accuracy comparable to leading models in the market. To further improve CLASSIFY_TEXT, you can also provide label descriptions, examples corresponding to each label, and a short explanation of the classification task. Descriptions and examples in particular are associated with higher classification accuracy where the relationship between the input text and the categories is ambiguous.

With the CLASSIFY_TEXT function, you get ease of use and efficiency without compromising on accuracy. The outputs of CLASSIFY_TEXT are structured in well-formatted JSON, without any additional post processing needed, for easy integration of results into your data pipeliene.

For more information, see CLASSIFY_TEXT (SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX).