Excited to share our work on Speculative Decoding @Snowflake AI Research!

🚀 4x faster LLM inference for coding agents like OpenHands @allhands_ai

💬 2.4x faster LLM inference for interactive chat

💻 Open-source via Arctic Inference as a plugin for @vllm_project…

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❄️ Snowflake Gen2 Warehouses are here, and they deliver! 🚀
This week, Snowflake released the Generation 2 (STANDARD_GEN_2) virtual warehouse, and I had to put them to the test on one of our heaviest pipelines.

🔍 The workload:
A tested MERGE involving 3.8…

Hi #All ❄Snowflake ❄ #DataJedis & #DataSaiyans!

📢 NEW improvement on Dynamic Tables: If you have ever need to filter using NON-deterministic functions, now it's the moment you can use it!

🚨🧐 Until the moment using that type of functions caused that your…

🤯 Snowflake benchmark shows pandas on Snowflake is up to 30x FASTER than traditional pandas at scale! 🚀 How? 🤔 It uses Snowflake's magic to distribute the processing, going beyond single-machine memory limits. ❄️

Think familiar pandas syntax, but supercharged…

A strong start to the year at @Snowflake. We delivered our first-ever $1 billion revenue quarter.

Q1 Product Revenue grew an impressive 26% YoY. Given our strong results, we’re raising our growth outlook for the year.

Our mission at Snowflake is to empower…

Hi #All ❄Snowflake ❄ #DataJedis & #DataSaiyans!

📢 Today a SQL feature tip function: Have you ever need to CANCEL programmatically your queries?

🚨🧐 We will see that there are different methods to do so, it depends on what scope you want to apply this cancellation:…

Just noticed a new preview feature in Snowflake that’s actually pretty useful!

They’ve added automatic cost anomaly detection. Basically, Snowflake now tracks your credit usage day by day, and if something suddenly spikes or drops compared to what’s normal…

Solving real enterprise AI pain points! Our AI Research just shared two impactful new open-source efforts:

➡️ Arctic-Text2SQL-R1: Generate reliable SQL from natural language that truly executes on complex enterprise schemas. It’s trained for actual execution…

Expand your Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem to leverage Cortex AI features

We're thrilled to announce we’ve signed an agreement to acquire @crunchydata! 🚀 This strategic move will bring Snowflake Postgres—an AI-ready, enterprise-grade PostgreSQL database—to our AI Data Cloud. Developers will be able to leverage the full power of…

Cortex AISQL (public preview) transforms Snowflake SQL into an AI query language so users can build AI pipelines using familiar commands across multimodal data.

Simplify and scale data movement across your ecosystem with Snowflake Openflow—a fully managed service for fast, seamless, and secure data integration.

Get a full overview of major Snowflake Summit 2025 announcements, including new AI capabilities, product updates and innovations across the AI Data Cloud platform.

This is part 2 of 3 of a fluff-free, SQL Serverless warehouse testing between Databricks & Snowflake (Gen 1 and 2). All tests were conducted between late May of 2025 and the first few days of June, 2025.