Snowflake, Databricks Race to Own Enterprise AI Stack

Personal AI agents are driving bottom-up productivity gains across enterprises, echoing the PC era but with a critical difference: agents can act, not just create. Without coordinated architecture, companies risk building a new generation of data silos faster and with greater operational risk than ever before. Snowflake and Databricks are positioning themselves as the backbone of what analysts call a System of Intelligence, the layer organizing enterprise data, context, and business logic for agent-driven action. Ahead of their respective summits, both companies are moving beyond analytics platforms into a control point that will shape how AI agents reason and execute work across the enterprise.