(AI)m for Greatness - Snowflake’s hiring in Americas
AI (Snowflake’s Version)
April marked a monumental achievement for Snowflake as it unveiled Snowflake Arctic, a cutting-edge open-source large language model (LLM) specifically crafted to be the most accessible and enterprise-ready LLM on the market. Arctic surpassed leading open models like DBRX, Llama 2 70B, and Mixtral-8x7B in various benchmarks, all while being brought to market at a fraction of the cost and in record time. This groundbreaking development heralds a new era of enterprise AI, an era in which Snowflake is committed to pushing the boundaries to make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective for the community.
This isn’t Snowflake’s first rodeo in the world of AI. Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed service that makes building AI apps within Snowflake easy and secure, was announced last year. Two recent partnerships with AI startups Reka and Mistral AI have bulked up Snowflake Cortex by bringing more LLMs into the Snowflake platform.
Snowflake’s AI ecosystem also features a key player in the industry – NVIDIA. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced an expanded collaboration with Snowflake during his keynote at the company’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC). The match made in AI heaven was first announced at last year’s Snowflake Summit – the expansion further powers generative AI applications and enhances model performance and scalability.
Hear directly from Snowflake CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy, on our partnership with NVIDIA, innovation pipeline, and customer use cases during an interview with Jim Cramer of Mad Money.
✈️ CFO Goin’ on Tour
He may not have sold out stadiums, but Mike Scarpelli’s Asia Pacific tour was close to Ms. Swift's level of work travel – visiting Tokyo, Seoul, Pune, Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney – all in two weeks.
Three Data for Breakfasts, two CXO luncheons, two Startup Founder Mixer events, an All Hands at each office, and an inaugural ribbon cutting was just part of how Mike spent his time connecting with employees and customers.
Mike’s key message while meeting top executives and cutting-edge startup founders? “There is no AI strategy without a data strategy.” He also spoke on IPO preparedness, data governance (a bottleneck for data strategy), and the impact of generative AI during a roundtable with Indian startup leaders – see a brief summary here.
Toronto and Tokyo Snowflakes are also moving onto bigger and better things. The new offices support Snowflake’s global expansion. The new digs impressive enough to be on the cover of a Drake album.
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🌱🌎 Diving Into Earth Day
VP of Engineering Allison Lee is no stranger to diving into the deep end. From making an impact in ocean conservation to starting Snowflake’s Database Engineering team, if Allison has a passion, she’ll swim towards it. Read about her experience diving in the depths of marine sanctuaries and her thoughts on technological advancements in environmental efforts.
We “Make Each Other the Best” by coming together in and out of the workplace to care for our local communities in meaningful ways. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Snowflakes around the world joined together to share in their passions and celebrate the beautiful world that we call home. They also shared photos of themselves out in the community, doing the Earth some good and for submitting said photo, they qualified for a drawing to win a sustainable Snowflake Yeti mug!
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8moExciting opportunity to join the snowflake team. Tarun Diwan