Snowflake announces tools to help businesses adopt agentic AI systems: All details

Snowflake has announced a range of new artificial intelligence (AI), governance and interoperability tools aimed at helping businesses adopt agentic AI systems . The announcements were made at Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco and include updates across Snowflake CoCo , Snowflake CoWork , Snowflake Horizon Catalog and the company's data platform. The company said the new offerings are designed to help organisations move from AI experimentation to systems that can automate tasks, make decisions and operate using enterprise data within a governed environment.



"The future of enterprise AI will be defined by how well organizations connect intelligence, trusted data, and action across the business. At Snowflake Summit 26, we’re introducing innovations that help power the agentic enterprise, giving organizations a trusted foundation and control plane to build AI faster, operationalize it securely at scale, and enable teams and AI agents to work together from a shared business context wherever data lives,” Vijayant Rai, Snowflake India’s managing director, said.



Snowflake expands CoCo and CoWork capabilities



Snowflake announced new features for Snowflake CoCo, its AI coding agent previously known as Cortex Code. The tool is now being expanded to additional platforms, including Slack, Visual Studio Code, Claude Code, mobile devices and Microsoft Excel.



The company also introduced Snowflake Datastream, a managed streaming service for Apache Kafka which is designed to support real-time data processing for AI applications and agents. Snowflake said the combination of CoCo and Datastream will allow developers to build AI-powered applications using continuously updated data.



For knowledge workers, Snowflake unveiled updates to Snowflake CoWork, formerly known as Snowflake Intelligence. New features include Cortex Sense, Artifacts, Deep Research, User Skills and personalisation capabilities.



According to the company, these additions are intended to help employees interact with enterprise data through AI-driven workflows and support decision-making with context-aware recommendations.



Snowflake also announced Cortex Training, which provides managed infrastructure for organisations to customise and train foundation models directly within the Snowflake environment.



New governance and security features



The company introduced several updates to Snowflake Horizon Catalog, its governance and security platform. Among the new capabilities is Horizon Context, which is designed to provide a shared business context across users, tools and AI agents. Snowflake also announced Agent Identity and updates to Snowflake Trust Center to improve visibility and governance for AI deployments.



In addition, Snowflake unveiled Adaptive Compute, a feature that automatically adjusts compute and software resources in real time to support AI workloads and applications without requiring manual optimisation.



Focus on interoperability



Snowflake also introduced new interoperability capabilities to enable enterprises to access and manage data across different systems without moving or duplicating it. The updates include support for Apache Iceberg v3, Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg Tables, external engine access management, and the Iceberg REST Scan Plan API.



The company said these capabilities, combined with Snowflake Horizon Catalog and Apache Polaris, are intended to provide a single governed layer for enterprise data across multiple clouds, tools and platforms.



Snowflake also announced Automatic Data Agents and Agent Sharing, which can convert shared datasets into conversational AI agents while maintaining governance controls. The company said Snowflake CoCo and Snowflake CoWork will also enable users to interact with enterprise data through natural-language queries.