Announcing Claude Opus 4.8 on Snowflake Cortex AI Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8, its latest AI model, on Snowflake Cortex AI in public preview on May 28, 2026, making it available within Snowflake's secure perimeter for use with Cortex Code, Cortex Agents, and other Snowflake AI tools. The model is designed for long-horizon agentic work, knowledge work, and memory tasks, with improved reasoning, code generation, and support for complex enterprise use cases including document drafting, data analysis, and presentations. We are thrilled to announce the availability of Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic’s latest model, on Snowflake Cortex AI https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex/ . As a launch partner with Anthropic, we're providing same-day availability of Claude Opus 4.8 in public preview. It is available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Cortex Code https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/ , Cortex Agents https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents , Cortex AI Functions https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/llm-functions , Cortex Inference https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-llm-rest-api , and Snowflake Intelligence https://ai.snowflake.com/ . Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s latest model https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 . It is highly autonomous and performs exceptionally well on long-horizon agentic work, knowledge work, and memory tasks. It builds on the strengths of previous Opus models and is stronger on professional work, including document drafting, data analysis, and presentations. Source: Anthropic, May 28, 2026 What you can do with Claude Opus 4.8 on Snowflake Opus 4.8 joins leading AI models in Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling a wide range of enterprise use cases, all within Snowflake’s security and governance perimeter. With Opus 4.8, you can: Speed up development with : Snowflake’s AI coding agent understands your enterprise data, governance and workflows, enabling teams to go from idea to production quickly without breaking trust or impacting scale. Now, with Opus 4.8, Cortex Code enables improved reasoning, code generation, support for more complex, long-running tasks and agentic execution, bringing secure, Snowflake-aware assistance directly into Snowsight interface, the CLI and local dev tools. For data engineers, analysts and builders, it turns natural language into production-ready pipelines, analytics and AI agents — collapsing weeks of glue work into minutes, while staying governed, interoperable and enterprise-grade. You can try Claude Opus 4.8 in preview using the /model command within the CLI: Cortex Code https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/ Build advanced personal work agents : Snowflake Intelligence https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/snowflake-intelligence-enterprise-ai/ introduces a new category of personal work agents designed to transform how organizations work, collaborate and innovate by fostering a truly data-driven culture. Every employee, regardless of technical expertise, can ask complex questions in natural language, uncover the “why” behind every “what,” and take confident action, all within Snowflake’s secure, governed perimeter. Claude Opus 4.8 on Snowflake Cortex AI extends this foundation with enhanced reasoning, stronger code generation, and support for more sophisticated agentic workflows. Teams can build advanced agents that reason across structured and unstructured enterprise data and orchestrate analytical and operational workflows securely within Snowflake. Analyze structured and unstructured data with unparalleled precision : Cortex AI Functions make it easy to build scalable AI pipelines across multimodal enterprise data using SQL. Cortex AI Functions offer high-performance processing at a lower cost than manually orchestrated AI pipelines, enabling trusted insights across the enterprise while maintaining the security and governance capabilities Snowflake is known for. For example, with the AI COMPLETE function, analysts can apply natural language instructions directly in SQL, leveraging models such as Opus 4.8. SELECT AI COMPLETE 'claude-opus-4-8', PROMPT 'Review the following financial filing and summarize key revenue trends, margin changes, and any notable risk factors mentioned: {0}', my table.filing FROM my table Developers can build AI applications closer to their secure data : Use the Cortex Inference to build agentic enterprise applications within the Snowflake security perimeter. They can leverage new capabilities such as Opus 4.8’s adjustable effort levels, enabling the model to balance reasoning depth and latency on a task. Developers can get started quickly using the Anthropic SDK by pointing it to their Snowflake Cortex Inference endpoint, enabling a seamless integration with familiar Anthropic tooling. python import httpx import anthropic token =