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Snowflake AI features: trust and safety changed Snowflake, Jun 6, 2026

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  1. Added: Snowflake continuously updates the models that power Cortex AI features to improve quality, performance, and availability. These updates may introduce changes to model behavior, availability, or lifecycle status.
  2. Added: This document describes how model changes are defined, how they are communicated, and how model lifecycle and deprecation are managed.
  3. Added: Models in Cortex follow a defined lifecycle to communicate readiness and stability:
  4. Added: Lifecycle status reflects the maturity and support level of a model. As models progress through these stages, their status will be reflected across customer-facing surfaces.
  5. Added: Preview models are intended for evaluation and may change more frequently. GA models are considered stable and suitable for production use.
  6. Added: A model update is considered a behavior change if it results in any of the following:
  7. Added: These changes may impact how customers interact with models and should be reviewed as part of normal governance processes.
  8. Added: Snowflake communicates model-related updates through the following mechanisms:
  9. Added: Model deprecations are communicated separately from bundled releases to provide clear and timely notification.
  10. Added: Snowflake periodically deprecates models to ensure customers have access to high-quality, well-supported options.
  11. Added: Lifecycle status will reflect deprecation through the transition to Legacy and ultimately End of Life.
  12. Added: If you choose to use any of the Snowflake AI Features, your use is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy .
  13. Added: The outputs of Snowflake AI Features may be inaccurate, inappropriate, inefficient, or biased. Decisions based on such outputs, including those built into automatic pipelines, should have human oversight and review processes to ensure they are safe, accurate, and suitable for your intended use.
  14. Added: Your use of any Snowflake AI Feature that is identified as being powered by a third-party, open-source model is subject to any applicable license agreement and/or acceptable use policy set forth under the Offering-Specific Terms page available at https://www.snowflake.com/legal/ .
  15. Added: For further information, see the Snowflake AI Trust and Safety FAQ .
  16. Removed: At Snowflake, feature updates are announced and deployed in the following 3 types of releases:
  17. Removed: Bundled Behavior Changes - Once a month release that introduces behavior changes.
  18. Removed: Unbundled Behavior Changes - Unbundled releases are not associated with a bundled or standard weekly release.
  19. Removed: What's new - Newly released features or important updates to existing features.
  20. Removed: Model updates follow a similar pattern of announcements. For model updates, the following would constitute a behavior change :
  21. Removed: Required syntax changes (e.g. specifying a new model or model version in the function parameter).
  22. Removed: Required prompts or input updates to get similar results.
  23. Removed: Significant changes in structure of the model output.
  24. Removed: Bundled behavior changes would include most anticipated behavior changes, including:
  25. Removed: Model deprecation in the ordinary course, such as planned deprecation by the model provider or Snowflake (including those on which fine-tuning is permitted).
  26. Removed: Model updates, e.g. new versions or new models, that may result in changes to syntax, prompts, or output structure.
  27. Removed: Unbundled behavior changes would typically be reserved for the following:
  28. Removed: Model deprecation for emergency reasons, e.g. concerns about the quality of a model or its outputs.
  29. Removed: Lastly, What's new denotes general improvements that would likely not constitute a behavior change and therefore would be automatically included. This would typically be the following:
  30. Removed: Model updates or new versions (whether provided by a third party or Snowflake) that improve results but have no anticipated material effect on how you interact with the model.
  31. Removed: The following table shows some examples of model updates and how they would be announced:
  32. Removed: A new version of the Jamba model is released but has no anticipated material effect on how you interact with the model.
  33. Removed: A new Llama model is made available through Snowflake.
  34. Removed: One of the Mistral models is deprecated.
  35. Removed: An update to the TRANSLATE model results in a change in the output structure.
  36. Removed: A model is deprecated due to safety concerns regarding the model output.
  37. Removed: Where your configuration of Cortex Code uses a model provided on the Model and Service Pass-Through Terms , your use of that model is further subject to the terms for that model on that page.
  38. Removed: The data classification of inputs and outputs are as set forth in the following table.
  39. Removed: Cortex Code CLI: Covered AI Features. Cortex Code in Snowsight: Preview AI Features. [ 1 ]
  40. Removed: Represents the defined term used in the AI Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.
  41. Removed: For additional information, refer to Snowflake AI and ML .
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