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every year anyone Ankur Goyal 11Shawn Wang 6Swix (Shawn) 4Erik Bernhardsson 4Joubin Mirzadegan 3Sarah Catanzaro 2Simon Eskildsen 1Samuel Colvin 1Emil Eifrem 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Snowflake comes up
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 53:58 Shawn Wang I had the same pitches from Snowflake. 3 times in the scene
AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 39:31 Emil Eifrem Everything like between Snowflake and this and that, right?
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 17:57 Simon Eskildsen So now it means you don't have to have this, like, big foundation DB or, like, zookeeper or whatever sitting there contending with the keys, which is how, you know, that's what Snowflake and others have to do.
[State of AI Startups] Memory/Learning, RL Envs & DBT-Fivetran — Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify
- ▶ 6:35 Sarah Catanzaro I think we have seen some consolidation in, uh, the, you know, modern data stack, uh, particularly around, you know, some of the key components, whether it was, you know, Fivetran or DBT or, uh, you know, Hex or, you know, Snowflake. 2 times in the scene
AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- ▶ 30:32 Joubin Mirzadegan The first is do not just go on their LinkedIn and look at all the fancy logos that they have gone and worked at and immediately assume that because they were at Snowflake or because they were at Databricks, they must be good for your AI… 3 times in the scene
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 10:26 Shawn Wang Flake, RDS. 2 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 46:19 Samuel Colvin The other problem that I have with ClickHouse and Impact Timescale is that, like, the ultimate architecture, the, like, snowflake architecture of binary data in object store queried with some kind of cache from nearby, they both have it,…
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 1:48:55 Shawn Wang Snowflake was down.
Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
- ▶ 28:08 unnamed speaker So you can use our model on Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, uh, Snowflake, IBM.
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 5:55 Ankur Goyal I think Snowflake is going through that right now as well. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 Ankur Goyal So we argued for like two or three months, and then prototyped an eval system on top of Snowflake and some scripts, and then shipped the new model like two weeks later.
- ▶ 59:06 Ankur Goyal I think Databricks is doing pretty well, and it's, it's hard to know how successful they would have been without doing that, but because of that, and, you know, Snowflake was doing really well at the time, everyone thought this hybrid…
- ▶ 1:17:15 Ankur Goyal If you think about Snowflake, it is separating storage from compute
- ▶ 1:47:01 Ankur Goyal My conclusion is that this is a very real problem for a very small number of companies, and that is why Datadog, Splunk, Honeycomb, et cetera, et cetera, built their own database technology, which is, in some ways, it's sad because all of…
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 3:29 Swix (Shawn) Um, so Snowflake released a, uh, large model called, uh, Snowflake Arctic, where they detailed, uh, three phases of training, where they, they had, like, a different mixture of, like, there was, like, 75% web in the first, uh, first… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Swix (Shawn) Um, so Snowflake released a, uh, large model called, uh, Snowflake Arctic, where they detailed, uh, three phases of training, where they, they had, like, a different mixture of, like, there was, like, 75% web in the first, uh, first…
- ▶ 37:00 Swix (Shawn) Well, if rumors are to be believed, uh, and he didn't comment on this, but, you know, Snowflake may, uh, they figure out the commercialization for them.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 34:23 Erik Bernhardsson Yeah, and, and, like, one thing I've, you know, like, I've written a bit about it in my blog, too, is, like, I, I think of us as, like, a second layer of cloud provider in the sense that, like, I think Snowflake is, like, kind of a good… 4 times in the scene