Snowflake Arctic
Snowflake Arctic is a model family from Snowflake AI Research12, with 2 assessed releases in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the Apache License 2.0.
Arctic is a text-in, text-and-code-out language model pretrained from scratch by the Snowflake AI Research Team. It uses a dense-MoE hybrid transformer that combines a 10B dense model with a residual 128x3.66B mixture-of-experts MLP, for 480B total and 17B active parameters with top-2 gating. Base and instruct-tuned checkpoints were released on April 24, 2024 with weights and code under Apache-2.0.125
- Model hub: Arctic Base on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
- Model hub: Arctic Instruct on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
- Repository: Snowflake-Labs/snowflake-arctic repository (external site: github.com)
- Release notes: Arctic announcement (external site: snowflake.com)
On AI on Hugging Face: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct, Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-base
Releases assessed
| Release | Weights | Tier (USASI rubric v0.2) | License | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake Arctic Base | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight | Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0 | Apr 24, 2024 |
| Snowflake Arctic Instruct | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight | Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0 | Apr 24, 2024 |
What it is useful for
Snowflake presents Arctic as aimed at enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following.4
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USASI. (2026, September 29). Snowflake Arctic. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/snowflake-arctic/
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@misc{usasi_snowflake_arctic,
author = {{USASI}},
title = {Snowflake Arctic},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/snowflake-arctic/}},
note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
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