Snowflake Makes Enterprise Data AI-Ready With Snowflake Postgres and Advanced Innovations for Open Data Interoperability

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 3, 2026--

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced advancements that make data AI-ready by design, allowing enterprises to rely on data that is continuously available, usable, and governed as AI transitions from experimentation into real-world production systems. With new enhancements to Snowflake Postgres (generally available soon), the world’s most popular database 1 now runs natively in the AI Data Cloud so enterprises can consolidate their transactional, analytical, and AI use cases onto a single, secure platform. To help ensure AI systems are trusted at enterprise scale, Snowflake is further embedding enhanced interoperability, governance, and resilience features into its platform, enabling more customers to bring Snowflake directly to their data, wherever it lives.

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“As businesses move from AI experimentation to production, the real challenge is ensuring AI systems can consistently access data that is connected, governed, and discoverable across the enterprise,” said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake. “That means eliminating data silos, fragile pipelines, and closed systems that slow down AI deployment and increase risk. By bringing unified operational and analytical data, as well as open interoperability together in one platform, we’re empowering customers to develop enterprise-ready AI systems that work with real business data, securely and at scale.”

“At Sigma, our customers expect live, interactive analytics on the most current business data,” said Jake Hannan, Head of Data, Sigma Computing. “With Snowflake Postgres, we can work directly on fresh transactional data inside Snowflake without relying on complex pipelines or external systems. That gives our teams and customers a simpler, more reliable foundation to build governed analytics and AI-powered experiences that respond in real time.”

Connecting Enterprise Data and AI to Power Mission-Critical Apps and AI Agents

Most organizations still keep their transactional and analytical databases siloed on separate systems, a legacy approach that forces teams to rely on complex pipelines to connect these systems. This fragmentation adds steep costs, slows development, introduces risk, and delays insights. Snowflake Postgres eliminates these pipelines by bringing transactional, analytical, and AI capabilities together on a single, enterprise-ready platform. In turn, full compatibility with open source Postgres allows companies to move their existing apps onto Snowflake, without code changes. Now with Snowflake Postgres, teams can power critical apps and AI agents, analyze business performance and trends using the most up-to-date data from their operations, and build AI-driven features like recommendations or forecasting — all without costly, complex data pipelines or the infrastructure overhead of managing multiple vendors.

Powered by pg_lake, a set of PostgreSQL extensions that allow Postgres to easily work within an organization’s open and interoperable lakehouse grounded in Apache IcebergTM2, enterprises can leverage Snowflake Postgres to directly query, manage, and write to Apache Iceberg tables using standard SQL. This capability is delivered within a familiar Postgres environment, so enterprises can eliminate costly data movement between transactional and analytical systems. Enterprises such as BlueCloud and Sigma Computing are using Snowflake Postgres to simplify their data architectures and run enterprise-ready AI and apps on connected data.

“For BlueCloud, Snowflake Postgres represents a major opportunity to help our customers eliminate data pipelines, without compromising performance,” said Rob Sandberg, SVP and Head of Advisory Consulting, BlueCloud. “Its enterprise-grade Postgres foundation brings real credibility, particularly for the financial services organizations we support. With Snowflake Postgres, we can deliver low-latency transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI on a single platform, reducing overhead and helping our customers be more agile in meeting their business goals.”

Making Data Governed and Open for Trusted AI

As AI moves into production, enterprises need data that remains open, governed, and resilient as it flows across engines, formats, and environments. To address this need, Snowflake is expanding how customers access, share, and govern their data, so AI systems can scale with real-world demands:

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1 Stack Overflow (July 31, 2025): “Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey.” Available at the following link. Stack Overflow.
2 Apache Iceberg is a high-performance format for huge analytic tables. “Apache” is a registered trademark or trademark of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president said Tuesday he instructed the country’s foreign minister to “pursue fair and equitable negotiations” with the United States, the first clear sign from Tehran it wants to try to negotiate as tensions remain high with Washington after the Mideast country's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests last month.

The announcement marked a major turn for reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who broadly had warned Iranians for weeks that the turmoil in his country had gone beyond his control. It also signals that the president received support from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for talks that the 86-year-old cleric previously had dismissed.

Turkey had been working behind the scenes to make the talks happen there later this week as U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is traveling in the region.

But whether Iran and the U.S. can reach an agreement remains to be seen, particularly as President Donald Trump now has included Iran's nuclear program in a list of demands from Tehran in any talks. Trump ordered the bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites during the 12-day war Israel launched against Iran in June.

Writing on X, Pezeshkian said in English and Farsi that the decision came after “requests from friendly governments in the region to respond to the proposal by the President of the United States for negotiations.”

“I have instructed my Minister of Foreign Affairs, provided that a suitable environment exists — one free from threats and unreasonable expectations — to pursue fair and equitable negotiations, guided by the principles of dignity, prudence, and expediency,” he said.

The U.S. has yet to acknowledge the talks will take place. A semiofficial news agency in Iran on Monday reported — then later deleted without explanation — that Pezeshkian had issued such an order to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who held multiple rounds of talks with Witkoff before the 12-day war.

Late Monday, the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Mayadeen, which is politically allied with the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, aired an interview with Ali Shamkhani, a top Khamenei adviser on security.

Shamkhani, who now sits on the country’s Supreme National Security Council and who in the 1980s led Iran's navy, wore a naval uniform as he spoke.

He suggested if the talks happened, they would be indirect at the beginning, then moving to direct talks if a deal appeared to be attainable. Direct talks with the U.S. long have been a highly charged political issue within Iran's theocracy, with reformists like Pezeshkian pushing for them and hard-liners dismissing them.

The talks would solely focus on nuclear issues, he added.

Asked about whether Russia could take Iran's enriched uranium like it did in Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Shamkhani dismissed the idea, saying there was “no reason” to do so. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Monday said Russia had “long offered these services as a possible option that would alleviate certain irritants for a number of countries.”

“Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, will not seek a nuclear weapon and will never stockpile nuclear weapons, but the other side must pay a price in return for this," he said.

Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels. The International Atomic Energy Agency had said Iran was the only country in the world to enrich to that level that wasn't armed with the bomb.

Iran has been refusing requests by the IAEA to inspect the sites bombed in the June war.

“The quantity of enriched uranium remains unknown, because part of the stockpile is under rubble, and there is no initiative yet to extract it, as it is extremely dangerous," Shamkhani said.

Witkoff is expected to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli security officials on Tuesday, according to a White House official who was not authorized to comment publicly about the talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.

While in Israel, Witkoff will meet with the head of the Mossad intelligence service and the Israeli military's chief of staff, according to another official who was not authorized to speak to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Israel is expected to ask that any agreement with Iran include removing enriched uranium from the country, stopping the enrichment of uranium, limiting the creation of ballistic missiles and ending support for Tehran's proxies.

However, Shakhani in his interview rejected giving up uranium enrichment — a major obstacle in earlier talks with the U.S. In November, Araghchi said Iran was doing no enrichment in the country because of the U.S. bombing of the nuclear sites.

Witkoff later will travel to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, later in the week for Russia-Ukraine talks, the official said.

“We have talks going on with Iran, we’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. Asked what his threshold was for military action against Iran, he declined to elaborate.

“I’d like to see a deal negotiated,” Trump said. “Right now, we’re talking to them, we’re talking to Iran, and if we could work something out, that’d be great. And if we can’t, probably bad things would happen.”

Mike Pompeo, a hard-liner on Iran who served as CIA director and secretary of state in Trump's first term, said it was “unimaginable that there can be a deal.”

“I think they may come away with some set of understandings,” Pompeo said at Dubai's World Governments Summit. "But to think that there’s a long-term solution that actually provides stability and peace to this region while the ayatollah is still in power is something I pray for but find unimaginable.”

Associated Press writers Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem and Aamer Madhani, Matthew Lee and Konstantin Toropin in Washington contributed to this report.

FILE - Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, attends the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, on Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)