Snowflake’s annual user conference is under way, so we have a blizzard (sorry not sorry) of announcements from and about them.  I’ll just highlight private previews of a new Large Language Model, based on last year’s Applica acquisition.  It will focus on making unstructured data more usable, and thus encouraging companies to store more of it in Snowflake.

We don’t usually bother to write about companies buying AI vendors, since it happens pretty much every day.  But it’s rare that the buyer is a data tech company like Databricks.  They just bought AI platform MosaicML for $1.3 billion.  Not bad for a two year old company with 76 employees and $37 million in funding.

Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt?  If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365.  Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.