Snowflake CIO identifies focus on AI in 2023 Data Trends Report

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Snowflake got its start bringing data warehouse technology to the cloud, but now, in 2023, like every other vendor, it finds artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive in nearly every discussion.< /p>

In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Sunny Bedi, CIO and CDO at Snowflake, detailed the latest findings from his company's 2023 Data Trends Report, which is released today. The report reveals that (surprise, surprise) AI is a priority and a fundamental use case for a growing number of organizations using Snowflake.

In his role as CIO, Bedi gets a front-row seat to not only learn how other companies are using Snowflake, but how Snowflake itself uses data and AI to drive its business forward.

Overall, Snowflake now sees four key trends:

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“Year-over-year, we saw 207% growth in data coming into Snowflake across all three cloud providers, AWS, GCP, and Azure,” Bedi told VentureBeat. "With this, we see that more compute workloads need to be built with advanced tools, and if organizations don't connect to a single source of truth data, they will fall behind."

Bringing code to data is essential

However, simply having a single source of truth for data is not enough for organizations to truly leverage data. This is where a new era of programmability and AI comes into play.

In 2022, Snowflake announced its Snowpark framework for data science and application development, which is about bringing code to data. The main language for the code is Python; Bedi noted that 88% of tasks run on Snowpark are written in Python rather than any other language such as SQL or Java.

"We're seeing increased adoption of how Snowpark allows code to move to data rather than the other way around, and as such speed and governance become incredibly efficient," Bedi said.< /p>

There is also an intersection between Snowpark and Streamlit. Snowflake acquired Streamlit technology in March 2022 to help with application development. And above the development capabilities is the growing world of