Announcing Claude Opus 5 on Snowflake Cortex AI Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 is now available in public preview on Snowflake Cortex AI, giving enterprises same-day access to the model within Snowflake's secure perimeter for use with CoCo, Cortex Agents, and other tools. Opus 5 sets a new state of the art on coding and knowledge work evaluations with adjustable effort settings, improved self-verification, and stronger visual and scientific-research outputs, according to Anthropic's Jul 24, 2026 announcement. We are thrilled to announce the availability in public preview of Claude Opus 5, 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 5. It is available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Snowflake CoCo 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 CoWork https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/snowflake-cowork/ . Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s latest model https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 . Opus 5 is a thoughtful, proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5, and it sets a new state of the art on coding and knowledge work evaluations while delivering greatly improved performance over its predecessor, Opus 4.8. Adjustable effort settings let you optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for faster results. Designed for everyday use, Opus 5 is stronger at verifying its own work and iterating until it succeeds, produces stronger visual outputs, and shows meaningful gains on scientific-research tasks making it well suited to demanding, long-horizon agentic and analytical work. Source: Anthropic, Jul 24, 2026 What you can do with Claude Opus 5 on Snowflake Opus 5 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 5, 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. CoCo Desktop is now generally available on macOS and Windows, giving developers a dedicated AI workspace with integrated access to local files, repositories, terminals and Snowflake. Unlike general-purpose AI coding tools, it comes with your Snowflake catalog already loaded and your RBAC roles active, so there are no cold starts, no re-explaining your data model and no governance gaps. Now with Opus 5, CoCo Desktop enables improved reasoning, code generation, and support for more complex, long-running agentic tasks. 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 5 in preview soon via the model picker in CoCo Desktop. Snowflake CoCo https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/ : Build advanced personal work agents: Snowflake CoWork https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/snowflake-intelligence-enterprise-ai/ is a personal work agent for every knowledge worker, helping teams move from data to decisions to action, all within Snowflake's secure, governed perimeter. With Deep Research, CoWork can decompose complex business questions across structured and unstructured enterprise data and return fully cited answers in minutes. With proactive automations, it can surface insights and recommended actions before anyone asks. Claude Opus 5 on Snowflake Cortex AI extends this foundation with enhanced reasoning, stronger performance on long-horizon agentic tasks and greater consistency across multi-step workflows, enabling every employee to delegate complex investigations and drive real work forward at scale. Analyze structured and unstructured data with unparalleled precision: Cortex AI Functions https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql 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 5. SELECT AI COMPLETE 'claude-opus-5', 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: Cortex Inference enables developers to build agentic enterprise applications within the Snowflake security perimeter. With Opus 5's adjustable effort levels, the model can balance reasoning depth and latency per task. Developers can get started quickly using the Anthropic SDK by pointing it to their Snowflake Cortex Inference endpoint, enabling seamless integration with familiar Anthropic tooling. python import httpx import anthropic token =