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March 10, 2026
GPT-5.4 Now Runs Inside Snowflake's Data Warehouse
Published: March 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Updated: March 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
100-word summary
Snowflake is offering OpenAI's GPT-5.4 in private preview through Cortex AI as of March 5, letting companies run the frontier model without moving data outside their warehouse. The setup means your customer records, sales data, and internal documents never leave Snowflake's environment while GPT-5.4 analyzes them. Data teams can build AI agents that answer questions or generate summaries directly from company databases. It's the second OpenAI frontier model Snowflake has added since their February partnership, following GPT-5.2 in December. The bet: enterprises will pay a premium to avoid the compliance headache of shipping sensitive data to external AI services.
What happened
Snowflake is offering OpenAI's GPT-5.4 in private preview through Cortex AI as of March 5, letting companies run the frontier model without moving data outside their warehouse. The setup means your customer records, sales data, and internal documents never leave Snowflake's environment while GPT-5.4 analyzes them. Data teams can build AI agents that answer questions or generate summaries directly from company databases. It's the second OpenAI frontier model Snowflake has added since their February partnership, following GPT-5.2 in December.
Why it matters
The bet: enterprises will pay a premium to avoid the compliance headache of shipping sensitive data to external AI services.