Snowflake Arctic
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Snowflake
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sridhar Ramaswamy — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Sridhar Ramaswamy (CEO), Benoit Dageville (Co-Founder/President of Product), Snowflake AI Research
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Snowflake Arctic, the Snowflake AI Research Team's enterprise-focused open LLM: a Dense-MoE hybrid pairing a 10B dense transformer with a residual 128x3.66B MoE MLP, for 480B total and 17B active parameters through top-2 gating, trained in a three-stage curriculum of 1T, 1.5T and 1T tokens for roughly under $2 million of compute. Snowflake says it excels at SQL generation, coding and instruction following; base and instruct weights and code are ungated under Apache 2.0, with data recipes shared.
- S · Stock / Status
- $340 (SNOW, Sep 30, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @SnowflakeDB
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from Snowflake, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“Snowflake Arctic.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/snowflake-arctic.html