4 stories tagged cortex.
Cortex Agents let you build an AI agent that reasons across structured tables, unstructured documents, and custom tools inside Snowflake. It orchestrates a plan-act-reflect loop, and the bill is the sum of four meters you need to watch.
Snowflake Cortex AI exposes LLMs as SQL functions like AI_COMPLETE and AI_CLASSIFY, so you run inference without moving data out. It is billed per token by model, and cost swings roughly 40x between a small model and a frontier one, so model choice is the budget.
Business users ask questions in plain English and get SQL answers with Cortex Analyst. Accuracy depends on your semantic view; billing is per message.
Snowflake's Cortex Search runs managed hybrid search for RAG without a vector database, but its several meters bill serving compute even when idle.