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Snowflake boosts enterprise data and AI interoperability features
Snowflake on Monday unveiled interoperability features that let companies use Snowflake data as well as external data lakes and open-system data under a single governance model without moving or duplicating data. The announcement was made at the Snowflake Summit 26 annual conference in San Francisco. The company highlighted the general release of Apache Iceberg v3 and Snowflake support for Iceberg tables, plus Horizon Catalog based on Apache Polaris and new integrations with major platforms.
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SAP to acquire Prior Labs, Dremio; says TFM beats LLM for predicting structured data
SAP said on May 4 it will acquire AI research lab Prior Labs and data lakehouse platform Dremio, with both deals subject to regulatory approval. It plans to invest more than 1 billion euros over four years to develop Prior Labs into a global AI research institute for structured business data, while keeping it independent. SAP says table foundation models are better than large language models for tabular data. It will deploy TFM via SAP AI Core and SAP Business Data Cloud, with Joule coordinating.
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Snowflake expands open data architecture to build AI environment without data movement
Snowflake on Tuesday announced a \"data autonomy\" strategy to strengthen interoperability aimed at minimising data movement, simplifying governance and improving enterprise AI systems\' access to data. The company is expanding support for Apache Iceberg version 3, including new data types and features, and boosting governance portability using Apache Polaris. The update also includes pg_lake, an open-source PostgreSQL extension, and support for new standards such as OpenLineage and Open Semantic Interchange.