Databricks, Snowflake Preview Agentic AI Features

Data platforms are becoming agent runtimes, not just places to store and query data. These releases show Databricks and Snowflake competing on governed, execution-ready AI.

• –Genie One expands beyond SQL into forecasting, what-if analysis, charts, and uploaded CSV or Excel files.
• –Its sandbox preserves Unity Catalog permissions, but serverless execution introduces another usage-based cost to monitor.
• –Snowflake’s Marketplace discovery lets CoCo find, compare, install, trial, or request listings through natural language.
• –Snowflake Decision targets bounded, repetitive tasks such as classification, rubric scoring, and routing without requiring a general-purpose model for every row.
• –Both products remain previews, so real-world accuracy, latency, governance friction, and unit economics are still unproven.