🚀 Snowflake Cortex Training Hub

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Your comprehensive resource for learning Snowflake Cortex - from foundational concepts to advanced AI applications. Discover both free and paid training opportunities from Snowflake and the community.

🧠 What is Snowflake Cortex?

Snowflake Cortex is an intelligent, fully managed AI service that provides access to industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and enables a broad array of AI/ML use cases in a fully-governed and secure environment within Snowflake.

Extract data from documents using Arctic-TILT, Snowflake's proprietary multimodal LLM. Process invoices, contracts, and various document types with zero-shot extraction and fine-tuning capabilities.

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Low-latency, high-quality hybrid search combining vector and keyword search. Powers RAG applications and enterprise search with automatic embedding and infrastructure management.

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Convert natural language questions into SQL queries with 90%+ accuracy using semantic models. Enables business users to query data without technical expertise.

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Native database objects that store business context, metrics, and dimensions. Bridge the gap between raw data and meaningful business insights for AI and BI tools.

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Orchestrate across structured and unstructured data sources. Plan tasks, execute tools, and generate responses using Cortex Search and Cortex Analyst capabilities.

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AI-powered SQL operators for complex data transformations. Filter, aggregate, and analyze data using LLM-like capabilities directly within SQL queries.

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Agentic experience for conversational analytics. Talk to your data, derive insights from trusted enterprise information, and initiate actions from a unified interface.

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Built-in functions for sentiment analysis, translation, summarization, text generation, and more using industry-leading models like Llama, Mistral, and Arctic.

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Extract structured data from unstructured documents including PDFs, Word documents, and images. Parse text, tables, and other content using Snowflake's built-in document parsing capabilities.

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Generate high-quality vector representations of text data for semantic search, clustering, and similarity analysis. Powers AI applications with efficient vector storage and retrieval.

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Customize large language models for your specific tasks using parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). Train custom adaptors on your data for improved performance on domain-specific applications.

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🏫 Official Snowflake Resources

🎯 Snowflake Quickstarts for Cortex

Official Collection: https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/?cat=cortex

Example Cortex Quickstart Tutorials

1. Getting Started with Cortex Analyst

Learn: Conversational interface for structured data, semantic models, natural language to SQL conversion with 90%+ accuracy, REST API integration with Streamlit.

Link: Getting Started with Cortex Analyst

2. Getting Started with Cortex Agents

Learn: Build intelligent sales assistants combining structured/unstructured data analysis, hybrid search, stateless REST API, real-time streaming responses.

Link: Getting Started with Cortex Agents

3. Customer Reviews Analytics using Snowflake Cortex

Learn: Analyze multilingual customer reviews, sentiment analysis, text categorization at scale, aspect-based sentiment analysis, generate actionable business insights.

Link: Customer Reviews Analytics

4. Using Snowflake Cortex and Streamlit with Geospatial Data

Learn: Geospatial data analysis, location-centric applications, Snowflake Marketplace datasets, Cortex functions with Snowpark, interactive mapping with Streamlit.

Link: Cortex and Streamlit with Geospatial Data

5. Getting Started with Amazon Q Business and Cortex

Learn: Integrate Amazon Q Business with Cortex Search, OAuth authentication, end-to-end copilot workflows, unstructured data processing with PARSE_DOCUMENT().

Link: Amazon Q Business and Cortex

6. Build RAG Based Equipment Maintenance App Using Snowflake Cortex

Learn: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Snowpark Python PDF processing, Vector datatype, E5-base-v2 text embedding, interactive Streamlit applications for equipment maintenance.

Link: RAG Based Equipment Maintenance App

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