Snowflake has announced a comprehensive suite of new artificial intelligence (AI), governance, and interoperability tools designed to assist businesses in adopting agentic AI systems. These announcements were made during the Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco and encompass updates across several key products, including Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake CoWork, Snowflake Horizon Catalog, and the company's core data platform. The company emphasized that these new offerings are strategically crafted to help organizations transition from mere AI experimentation to fully operational systems capable of automating tasks, making informed decisions, and leveraging enterprise data within a governed environment.
According to Vijayant Rai, Snowflake India's managing director, the future of enterprise AI hinges on how effectively organizations can integrate intelligence, trusted data, and action across their operations. At Snowflake Summit 26, the company is introducing innovations that empower the agentic enterprise, providing a trusted foundation and control plane to build AI faster, operationalize it securely at scale, and enable teams and AI agents to collaborate from a shared business context, regardless of where data resides.
Expansion of CoCo and CoWork Capabilities
Snowflake unveiled new features for Snowflake CoCo, its AI coding agent previously known as Cortex Code. This tool is now being extended to additional platforms, including Slack, Visual Studio Code, Claude Code, mobile devices, and Microsoft Excel. Furthermore, the company introduced Snowflake Datastream, a managed streaming service for Apache Kafka that supports real-time data processing for AI applications and agents. Snowflake stated that the combination of CoCo and Datastream will enable developers to build AI-powered applications using continuously updated data streams.
For knowledge workers, Snowflake announced updates to Snowflake CoWork, formerly known as Snowflake Intelligence. New features include Cortex Sense, Artifacts, Deep Research, User Skills, and personalization 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. Additionally, Snowflake announced Cortex Training, which provides managed infrastructure for organizations to customize 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, 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 optimization.
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 stated that 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 that Snowflake CoCo and Snowflake CoWork will also enable users to interact with enterprise data through natural-language queries.
