July 23, 2024: Snowflake Integrates Metas Llama 3.1 into Cortex AI - Snowflake has integrated Metas Llama 3.1 collection into Cortex AI, offering enterprises powerful AI capabilities with optimized real-time inference and fine-tuning. The system supports a 128K context window and allows efficient single GPU processing, cutting latency and costs. Snowflakes AI Research Team has open-sourced an optimized inference and fine-tuning stack to democratize advanced NLP applications. Cortex AI also includes built-in safety features, ensuring secure, responsible AI deployment.