Sep 25, 2025: FILE data type (General availability)¶

The FILE data type enables multimodal Cortex AI Functions workflows with unstructured data stored on internal or external stages. FILE values provide a way to reference files without encapsulating the actual file content. FILE objects let you:

• Store references to files in tables and pass them to Cortex AI Functions like AI_COMPLETE, AI_CLASSIFY, AI_EXTRACT, AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT, and AI_TRANSCRIBE for automated multimodal processing workflows.

• 通过创建并传递 FILE 值作为引用，可避免文件数据重复并提升处理效率。

• 将 DIRECTORY 函数与 TO_FILE 结合使用，可为整个文件集合创建 FILE 引用以实现批处理，从而与现有数据架构集成。

有关更多信息，请参阅 FILE 数据类型 和 TO_FILE 函数。