The deal positions Snowflake to compete with Databricks in AI while giving OpenAI enterprise distribution beyond Microsoft’s ecosystem.

Azure + Copilot AI growth and OpenAI commitments drive upside.

Databricks claims AI agents have quietly taken over enterprise database creation, pushing its Lakebase product to the center of agentic application development.

By moving Cortex into dbt and Airflow, Snowflake is aiming to eliminate context switching and pull AI closer to production pipelines, analysts say.

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a lightweight version of the company’s coding model, GPT-5.3-Codex, that is optimized to run on ultra-low latency hardware and can deliver over 1,000 tokens per second.