[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang] AI data cloud company Snowflake said on Monday it has signed a $200 million partnership with OpenAI.

The companies plan to develop and deploy customised AI solutions for joint customers and help improve return on investment (ROI).

Under the partnership, OpenAI models will be provided by default in Snowflake Cortex AI. Snowflake's roughly 12,600 customers worldwide will be able to use them across major cloud environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Snowflake said global companies such as Canva and WHOOP can apply OpenAI models directly to their enterprise data to conduct in-depth analysis and gain insights.

The companies plan to introduce interoperability features, software development kit (SDK) integration and shared workflows through engineering collaboration. They will also support building AI agents that can reason based on governed data and run across a range of tools and applications.

OpenAI models including GPT-5.2 will also be available in Snowflake Intelligence. Snowflake provides business continuity and disaster recovery functions by default under a 99.99 percent service level agreement (SLA) to help ensure corporate AI initiatives are not disrupted by system failures or disasters. It also provides governance and a responsible AI control environment through Snowflake Horizon Catalog. It will also support a multimodal AI environment that analyses all types of data, including text, images and audio, on an SQL-based approach through Cortex AI Functions, Snowflake's AI app development platform.

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy (슈리다 라마스워미) said, "This collaboration will enable companies to build and deploy AI on a secure data platform with guaranteed governance, using their most important asset, their data." He added, "The two companies will combine Snowflake enterprise data and OpenAI AI capabilities to help customers implement AI agents they can trust, and will present a new AI standard to underpin enterprise innovation while maintaining security and compliance."