In the era of low-code, no-code platforms, SaaS solutions, and the new trend called Agentic AI, the industry is focused on optimizing software development for greater efficiency. Text-to-SQL is one such area in software engineering where organizations aim to enable self-serve analytics and democratize SQL using AI. Snowflake Cortex AI, a generative AI offering from Snowflake, bundles this capability into a SaaS product that eliminates the complexity of building custom text-to-SQL solutions. The benefits go beyond reduced development effort. Cortex AI also delivers significantly higher accuracy in SQL query generation compared to custom-built solutions, thanks to its use of a semantic model.
Cortex AI comes in two versions: