At the Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francisco, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced new initiatives to accelerate enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence. The event drew approximately 5,000 attendees and included the announcement of Snowflake's partnership with the LA28 Olympics. Major product reveals included Snowflake Intelligence for natural language interaction with data, new AI agents for building machine learning pipelines, and a private preview of an Adaptive Compute service for automatic resource sizing and sharing. Ramaswamy stated, 'there is no AI strategy without a data strategy,' and highlighted Snowflake’s connected data ecosystem. In a keynote conversation, Altman predicted that by 2026, AI systems will help businesses solve complex problems and autonomously discover new knowledge. He described current AI agents as similar to junior employees, with future systems expected to perform at the level of experienced professionals. Altman referenced OpenAI's Codex agent and said upcoming models would be 'breathtaking.' He also projected that the current pace of AI progress would continue for at least the next five to ten years. Altman suggested that AI agents could soon autonomously discover new science, potentially quadrupling the global rate of scientific discovery. Real-world applications highlighted at the summit included NYSE Group increasing its message volume from 350 billion to 1.2 trillion per day and AstraZeneca accelerating productivity using Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.