Snowflake, a cloud-based data platform primarily for data management and analytics, has introduced Arctic LLM, an enterprise-grade AI model for generating database code. The model is freely available for research and commercial use under Apache 2.0 license.

The model processes data by breaking tasks into subtasks and delegating them to smaller, specialized models. Additionally, the model is built on a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture that allows it to activate only 17 billion out of its 480 billion parameters at a time, creating 128 separate expert models.

The model is available in the Snowflake Cortex and will also be available on AWS.

Snowflake offers a cloud-based data platform primarily for data management and analytics. The platform, engineered for cloud efficiency, facilitates a global “Data Cloud,” enabling organizations to explore, share, and utilize their data effectively. Snowflake’s flagship model, Arctic LLM, addresses specific enterprise needs like developing SQL co-pilots and high-quality chatbots. Furthermore, Snowflake claims that the Arctic LLM can be trained on open public web datasets at about an eighth of the cost of similar models.