Episode 143 · 2023-07-06
Catalogs & Cocktails Live from Snowflake Summit 2023 in Las Vegas
Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda debrief after 4 days on-site at Snowflake Summit 2023 in Las Vegas. Key Takeaways: [00:00 - 00:40] Intro, Tim and Juan are at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas [00:43 - 01:27] AI [01:27 - 04:04] Large language models (LLMs), and associated costs [04:04 - 04:46] Costs of maintaining data infrastructure for larger models [04:50 - 06:58] AI and LM use cases for businesses [07:07 - 09:52] New capabilities added to Snowflake: Snow Park and Snowflake Container Services, and Streamlit [09:52 - 11:15] Juan predicts that Snowflake will build their own data centers [11:18 - 12:47] Databricks conference announcements [13:29 - 19:11] Introducing Ethan Aaron from Portable, and his take on trends with Snowflake