All Data and AI Weekly #209: 29 Sept 2025

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NiFi + AI + AI Data Cloud + Iceberg.

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[Snowflake Workspaces Now Generally Available]: Snowflake has officially announced the general availability of Workspaces, enhancing their native SQL development environment with support for Python, version control, and more collaborative features. (Link)
[Microsoft and Snowflake Deepen Partnership]: A new announcement highlights the continued collaboration between Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake, focusing on improved openness and interoperability to provide a seamless data experience for joint customers. (Link)
[A New Open Standard for Semantic Interchange in AI]: Snowflake is pioneering a new open standard for AI, aiming to create a common ground for semantic interchange that will help accelerate AI development and interoperability. (Link)

[Query of the Day with Tim Spann]: A practical and insightful query showcase from Tim Spann, offering actionable tips for your daily data tasks. (Link)
[Supercharging Snowflake Pruning with New Usage Views]: A detailed guide on how to leverage new Account Usage views in Snowflake to dramatically improve query performance through more effective pruning. (Link)
[Streamlining Healthcare Data with Openflow]: This quickstart guide from Snowflake demonstrates how to build an efficient data pipeline for healthcare data using CDC, DDB, and Openflow. (Link)
[Guide to Snowflake Data Ingestion with Openflow]: Hakkoda provides a resource on using Openflow for robust and scalable data ingestion into Snowflake. (Link)
https://medium.com/snowflake/snowflake-intelligence-next-ai-generation-fffadaa3e50e
https://medium.com/snowflake/snowflake-installing-configure-loading-data-and-testing-snowflake-postgresql-connector-d0c6106a6e06
https://medium.com/snowflake/snowflake-generate-files-with-custom-content-using-procedures-7e0edb00b02e
https://luma.com/a2jxf2ck
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/tables-iceberg-catalog-linked-database

[IBM Granite Document Lingual Model]: IBM has released a new 258M parameter model on Hugging Face, specialized for understanding and processing documents. (Link)
[CortexAI Slide Builder]: A fascinating new tool from Tim Spann that automates the creation of presentation slides using AI. (Link)
[AI-Ready Data Pipeline for Snowflake]: An open-source project providing a ready-to-deploy data pipeline designed for AI applications on Snowflake. (Link)
[Global Building Atlas]: An impressive open dataset and project for mapping and analyzing building footprints across the globe. (Link)
[Dayflow by Jerry Liu]: A new project from Jerry Liu (creator of LlamaIndex) worth keeping an eye on. (Link)
[Terraform Provider for Snowflake]: The official Terraform provider for managing Snowflake resources, enabling infrastructure-as-code best practices. (Link)

[Informative Tech Talk]: Check out this video for a deep dive into modern data architecture and strategies. (Link)
[AI FAQ Pro]: A useful, community-driven site for getting quick and accurate answers to common AI questions. (Link)
[Snowflake Marketplace Utilities]: A collection of free data utilities on the Snowflake Marketplace to help with common data tasks. (Link)