• Snowflake announced dynamic model routing in Cortex AI Gateway to cut enterprise AI inference costs through automatic model selection by workload.
• Capability expands across Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake CoWork, third-party agents; routes simpler tasks to cheaper models, complex work to frontier models.
• Internal tests showed up to 3x token efficiency on a dbt pipeline; 25% higher token efficiency for pull-request throughput.
• Snowflake also disclosed expanded access to open models via Cortex AI, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash 0731 and GLM-5.3.
• Press release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260818448905/en/

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