en.Wedoany.com Reported - Snowflake announced updates to Snowflake CoCo (formerly Cortex Code) and launched Snowflake Datastream at Snowflake Summit 26. CoCo is a coding agent that helps builders automate workflows, build applications, and deploy AI on enterprise data through simple prompts. Datastream is a fully managed streaming service based on Apache Kafka that integrates real-time data with AI on a unified platform, enabling organizations to drive AI applications and agents with continuously flowing data.
As a core component of Snowflake's enterprise AI agent control plane, CoCo provides builders with a unified and managed environment for workflow management. New features extend CoCo to desktop, mobile, and Slack interfaces, allowing builders to develop in their everyday environments. Builders can now authorize CoCo to autonomously run tasks, assisting with end-to-end application development and deployment, thereby helping teams deliver production-ready results faster and more securely. Combined with Datastream, CoCo integrates AI-assisted development with continuously flowing data on a single platform, offering organizations a simpler way to build real-time AI applications.
Christian Kleinerman, Executive Vice President of Product at Snowflake, stated that CoCo boosts productivity for experienced developers while empowering non-traditional builders, such as analysts and data-savvy business users, to create data pipelines, automate processes, and build AI applications on their own. With Snowflake Datastream, organizations can build and deploy real-time AI applications without managing separate streaming infrastructure.
CoCo is deeply integrated with the Snowflake managed data platform, providing builders with an AI agent that understands enterprise data, workflows, governance, and business context. Customers such as Fanatics, Thomson Reuters, and WHOOP are already using CoCo to accelerate data construction and AI deployment, reducing time to value and lowering development costs.
New enhancements enable more builders to leverage CoCo within their team's existing work environments, including desktop applications, mobile apps, and Slack access, as well as developer tool extensions like VS Code, Microsoft Excel, and the CoCo plugin for Claude Code. CoCo can now autonomously execute tasks without continuous user prompts, supporting repetitive and event-driven workflows, and is secured through Snowflake's role-based access controls and comprehensive audit trails. New Cloud Agents allow users to launch work in Snowsight and run securely in the cloud without maintaining local processes. The CoCo Agent SDK helps builders embed Cloud Agents functionality into existing workflows, while a secure local sandbox ensures agents run in isolated environments. CoCo also includes pre-built skills to help users build, operate, and troubleshoot data engineering workflows, and supports cross-team discovery, sharing, and reuse of validated workflows through the Skill Catalog. In terms of ecosystem integration, developers can transform simple conversations into complete applications in Vercel and deploy them directly to Snowflake accounts on Snowflake App Runtime, while new integrations with Retool and Superblocks enable organizations to leverage familiar platforms to build AI-driven applications on managed Snowflake data.
Snowflake Datastream provides real-time data to CoCo, ensuring AI applications and agents remain up-to-date and accurate. Datastream unlocks a $128 billion market opportunity in streaming data and real-time AI for Snowflake. Natively built on Snowflake and fully compatible with Kafka, it enables organizations to connect existing streaming applications and data flows without re-architecting systems. Teams can stream data directly into Snowflake tables without managing separate streaming systems, and streaming data automatically inherits Snowflake's governance, access controls, masking, and lineage. Together, CoCo and Datastream simplify the way real-time AI is built and deployed, with Datastream providing the real-time engine and CoCo serving as the AI coding agent. Builders can now create and deploy real-time pipelines within Snowflake using simple prompts.
Snowflake provides an AI data cloud platform that enables enterprises to innovate and extract more value from their data. Over 13,900 customers worldwide use the Snowflake AI Data Cloud to build, use, and share data, applications, and AI.
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