At Snowflake Data Cloud Summit '24, H2O.ai announced native H2O ML and generative AI apps in the Snowflake Marketplace, providing a seamlessly integrated workflow within your Snowflake account. These apps aim to democratize access to LLM for enterprises and help companies derive insights from their data more efficiently.
Sri Ambati, CEO and Founder of H2O.ai, highlighted the importance of this collaboration, saying, “By bringing our predictive and generative AI apps into the Snowflake ecosystem, we are helping organizations gain powerful insights from large-scale language models within their Snowflake accounts.”
H2O.ai and Snowflake are dedicated to enabling our joint customers to effectively leverage their data, and currently offer three H2O ML and GenAI bundles for Snowflake users: H2O Predictive Modeling Starter Pack, H2O GenAI LLM Starter Pack, and H2O Machine Learning Starter Pack.
Key features of the H2O.ai native application in the Snowflake Marketplace include:
- Seamless Integration: Users can leverage GenAI models directly within Snowflake native applications, eliminating the need for complex integrations.
- Data enrichmentGenAI applications automatically generate new columns based on advanced calculations to enrich insights and drive informed decision-making.
- Predictive AIGenAI capabilities enable advanced question answering and content generation based on existing data stores, enhancing traditional predictive models.
Chris Child, Senior Director of Product Management at Snowflake, commented on the value of the collaboration: “Partners like H2O.ai can provide valuable capabilities to our customers, such as enriching their data in the Data Cloud and unlocking insights quickly, securely, and powerfully.”
H2O.ai’s integration with Snowflake Native Apps allows customers to gain insights directly from the Snowflake account where their data is stored.
Jeffrey Vagg, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at North American Bancard (NAB), shared his experience: “The integration of Driverless AI and eScorer with Snowflake's cutting-edge container services and native apps has completely transformed our approach to data analytics.”
Combining the capabilities of the Snowflake Native App Framework and Snowpark Container Services, developers can build advanced applications that run on configurable hardware options, distribute them on the Snowflake Marketplace, and deploy them within customers' Snowflake accounts without requiring data movement.
The company has also released H2O-Danube2-1.8B LLM, which builds on the achievements of its predecessor, H2O-Danube 1.8B, and incorporates significant enhancements and improvements that establish it as a leader in the 2B SLM classification.
