Snowflake Integrates Google's AI Models, Expands Cloud Presence in Saudi Arabia and Australia

January 6, 2026
Snowflake Integrates Google's AI Models, Expands Cloud Presence in Saudi Arabia and Australia
  • Snowflake expands its collaboration with Google Cloud to integrate Google's Gemini 3 AI models directly into Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling enterprise-ready AI on Snowflake’s governed data platform.

  • New regional deployments are planned for Snowflake on Google Cloud in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Melbourne, Australia, with Melbourne expected in early 2026 to meet rising demand.

  • Snowflake Gen2 Warehouses on Google Cloud Axion-based C4A VM machines become production-ready, delivering notable price-performance benefits.

  • The article provides a company overview and does not include external market data or performance metrics beyond basic capability descriptions.

  • The compute layer allocates dedicated resources to support multiple users accessing common data sets for diverse use cases with minimal latency.

  • The storage layer ingests large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to create a unified data record for analytics and AI.

  • ClearQuery enables rapid data exploration and analysis through natural language queries.

  • Snowflake employs a headcount of over 9,000 employees.

  • Snowflake emphasizes a consumption-based, customer-centric model focused on scalability and flexible usage.

  • The platform uses a multi-layer, cloud-native architecture with independently scalable compute, storage, and cloud services to support low-latency access and scalability.

  • Snowflake positions itself as a data cloud and AI company delivering an AI Data Cloud by consolidating data into a single source of truth for insights, AI apps, data products, and collaboration.

  • Snowflake markets itself as a leading AI data platform with more than 12,600 customers globally, underscoring enterprise-ready AI capabilities.

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