Announcing OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Snowflake Cortex AI
Snowflake, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
GPT-6 Astra becomes available inside Cortex AI, keeping data within the Snowflake governance boundary.
Snowflake made OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra available within Cortex AI, letting customers use the model against their data without moving it outside the Snowflake governance boundary.
That containment is the main argument for in-platform model access generally: the alternative requires extracting data to an external API, which creates both a compliance question and a data movement cost.
Teams evaluating it should confirm how token consumption is billed and monitored, since in-platform convenience tends to increase usage substantially.