With reported 3x speed gains and limited degradation in output quality, the method targets one of the biggest pain points in production AI systems: latency at scale.

By moving Cortex into dbt and Airflow, Snowflake is aiming to eliminate context switching and pull AI closer to production pipelines, analysts say.

The software company, growing its presence in Sunnyvale over the past year, has signed for 635,000 square feet.