Anthropic, a leader in artificial intelligence, has recently announced a substantial $200 million multi-year deal with Snowflake, an enterprise cloud data platform. This partnership will bring Anthropic’s cutting edge large language models (LLMs) to Snowflake’s ecosystem. As such, it will further improve the AI capabilities that are available to Snowflake’s large and growing customer base.
Congratulations to Anthropic on another groundbreaking successful deal! This comes on the heels of a number of other enterprise partnerships which have dramatically increased its traction among businesses. Diligent also made headlines in October when the company landed a big investment deal with Deloitte. This agreement allows more than 500,000 Deloitte employees to access the Claude chatbot on their jobs. Anthropic recently announced a strategic partnership with IBM to incorporate its LLMs across IBM’s software offerings. Together this collaboration will greatly enhance Anthropic’s foothold in the enterprise sector.
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, shared his excitement about the new partnership with Snowflake. He noted that businesses have spent decades building these safe, reliable data ecosystems. Today, they want AI that works intuitively in those ecosystems without a hitch or trade offs. This impression resonates with Anthropic’s tactical emphasis on providing customized AI offerings for enterprises rather than end-users.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 plugs automatically into Snowflake Intelligence, Snowflake’s new enterprise AI service. This robust new complement gives our customers the tools to unlock their data in more meaningful ways. As this partnership develops, Claude is going to be much more tightly integrated into Snowflake’s infrastructure, where all of their clients’ data already lives.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake’s co-founder and new CEO, called this combination the “golden partnership” in a recent blog post. In his comments, he noted that Anthropic is one of a select few partners. Combined, they represent nine-figure alignment, deep co-innovation at the product level, and a history of successful collaboration for customers spanning the globe. This declaration highlights the reciprocal advantages expected from the collaboration between the two firms.
Anthropic’s new ambitious growth strategy is a significant shift of pace from its competitors such as OpenAI. Whereas OpenAI has taken a wider shot at user engagement, Anthropic is hyper-focused on fostering deep ties with businesses. This shift in focus has resulted in numerous lucrative partnerships over recent months as the company aims to position itself as a preferred AI vendor for businesses.