By O'Ryan Johnson
Publication Date: 2026-04-10 22:05:00
Snowflake believes the biggest obstacle to developing more and better AI agents is not the models themselves, but whether the data those agents rely on is clean, accessible and managed, said James Rowland-Jones, director of product management at Snowflake The Register.
He said the data analytics company is increasingly relying on open standards to solve this problem.
Just after the Apache Iceberg Summit this week, Rowland-Jones said that Snowflake is working on a “fully interoperable stack” based on Apache Iceberg’s open-table format.
“There are essentially data-driven AI platforms and AI-driven data platforms,” he said. “But for this to work in the age of AI, you need to have a set of data that is very easy and accessible to access. And this is where the story of interoperability really begins, because increasingly you need a single copy of the data.”
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