Organization

Snowflake

Snowflake is a data platform company and inference provider based in Menlo Park, California1 3. This catalog lists 2 open model releases from Snowflake, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0.

Documented roles: Data platform · Inference provider · Model developer

Snowflake operates a cloud data platform, which it calls the AI Data Cloud, deployed across multiple public clouds and regions. Its Cortex AI services run large language models from several providers inside the platform, and its research team released the Arctic language model with open weights in 2024.1 5 8

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026

Status: Snowflake's Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 described it as a company with a globally distributed workforce and no corporate headquarters, and designated its Bozeman, Montana office as its principal executive office for SEC purposes. Its Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 (filed March 2026) and later Form 10-Q list the principal executive offices at 135 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, California.2 1 3

Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.

Key facts

Website: snowflake.com (external site: snowflake.com)
Legal name: Snowflake Inc.1
Ownership (separate from openness): Publicly traded
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Delaware corporation, incorporated on July 23, 2012; common stock listed under the symbol SNOW.1
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California (principal executive offices)1 3
Founded: 20121
Sectors: Data, Enterprise, Agents, Open models
Careers: Careers page (external site: careers.snowflake.com)

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Snowflake published weights and code for the Arctic base and instruct models under Apache-2.0. Its Cortex AI services are hosted offerings inside the Snowflake platform, and the models from other providers offered there are not Snowflake releases.8 9 5

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

Hosted model products

Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.

Snowflake: hosted model products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Snowflake Cortex AI (external site: snowflake.com)	Hosted model API	Managed AI functions and APIs inside Snowflake accounts that call hosted large language models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, DeepSeek, and xAI; usable from SQL or Python with the required account privileges and database roles.4 5	Sep 29, 2026
Snowflake CoWork (external site: docs.snowflake.com)	Assistant app	Agentic application with a conversational interface for business users to ask questions of and act on enterprise data in Snowflake; available through a web interface and an iOS app listed as Snowflake Intelligence.6	Sep 29, 2026

Other products

Snowflake: other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Snowflake AI Data Cloud (external site: snowflake.com)	Data platform	Fully managed cloud data platform sold to organizations and deployed on major public clouds across multiple regional deployments.1 7	Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (1)

Snowflake ArcticModel family

Model releases (2)

Snowflake Arctic BaseModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Snowflake Arctic InstructModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight

Notable documented facts

In April 2024 Snowflake released base and instruct checkpoints of Arctic, a 480B-parameter dense-MoE hybrid language model, under the Apache-2.0 license on Hugging Face.8

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Snowflake Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose current SEC filings (Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 and the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2026) list its principal executive offices in Menlo Park, California. Its Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 stated it had no corporate headquarters and designated Bozeman, Montana as its principal executive office; both locations are in the United States.1 3 2

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Snowflake Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Mar 20, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
Snowflake Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Mar 21, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Snowflake Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended July 31, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Sep 4, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Snowflake Cortex AI | AI Data Cloud (external site: snowflake.com)
Snowflake Inc. · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Snowflake Cortex AI Functions (external site: docs.snowflake.com)
Snowflake Inc. · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Snowflake CoWork (external site: docs.snowflake.com)
Snowflake Inc. · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
Snowflake homepage (external site: snowflake.com)
Snowflake Inc. · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Snowflake AI Research (Hugging Face) · Model card · published Apr 24, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
9.
Snowflake-Labs/snowflake-arctic (external site: github.com)
Snowflake-Labs (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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@misc{usasi_snowflake,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Snowflake},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/snowflake/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
}

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