Baris Gultekin

Vice President of AI, Snowflake

Baris is Snowflake’s Vice President of AI where he is responsible for the suite of Cortex AI and machine learning capabilities, alongside driving Snowflake’s overarching AI product roadmap and strategy. Baris has built Snowflake’s AI product portfolio from the ground up since joining in 2023, and drives the development and monetization of AI products. He is passionate about working on cutting-edge AI and leveraging the technology to solve real world problems for customers. Baris joined Snowflake following its acquisition of nxyz in August 2023, where he served as the co-founder and CEO. Previously, Baris spent over a decade at Google across various product leadership roles, including serving as the co-founder of early Google Assistant — which grew from 10M to 500M monthly users during his tenure. Baris holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford.

Snowflake News

Sema4.ai's Agentic AI Comes to the AI Data Cloud with Snowflake Ventures Investment

Snowflake invests in Sema4.ai to bring secure, enterprise-ready AI agents to the AI Data Cloud—now available via Marketplace to automate insights and workflows.

Harsha Kapre|Baris Gultekin

JUN 04, 2025|2 min read

MORE POSTSFROM Baris Gultekin

Democratizing Enterprise AI: Snowflake’s New AI Capabilities Further Accelerate and Simplify Data-Driven Innovation

Snowflake unveils new enterprise AI features that simplify data analysis, agent deployment and model training — all with unified governance.

JUN 03, 2025|14 min read

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Strategy & Insights

Research: Early Gen AI Adopters See 41% ROI

Early adopters of generative AI report an average ROI of 41%. Explore global data from 3,300+ organizations and key insights into gen AI value and adoption.

APR 14, 2025|4 min read

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Strategy & Insights

Predictions 2025: Strategies to Realize the Promise of AI

Discover 2025’s top AI trends, from operationalizing gen AI and enhancing data readiness to tackling hallucinations and navigating AI-driven transformation.

DEC 04, 2024|4 min read

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Product and Technology

How Solid Data Strategies are Fueling Generative AI Innovation

A strong data foundation is key to unlocking generative AI's full potential, as revealed by Snowflake and MIT's latest insights on AI readiness and innovation.

OCT 14, 2024|4 min read

Snowflake Announces State-of-the-Art AI to Talk to your Data, Securely Customize LLMs and Streamline Model Operations

Snowflake Announces State-of-the-Art AI to Talk to your Data, Securely Customize LLMs and Streamline Model Operations

Learn how we’re simplifying AI integration and enhancing business operations.

Snowflake Brings Gen AI to Images, Video and More With Multimodal Language Models from Reka in Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake Brings Gen AI to Images, Video and More With Multimodal Language Models from Reka in Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake Brings Gen AI to Images, Video and More With Multimodal Language Models from Reka in Snowflake Cortex

Why a Solid Data Foundation Is the Key to Successful Gen AI

Partner & Customer Value

Why a Solid Data Foundation Is the Key to Successful Gen AI

Snowflake Ventures Invests in Landing AI, Boosting Visual AI in the Data Cloud

Snowflake Ventures Invests in Landing AI, Boosting Visual AI in the Data Cloud

Easy and Secure LLM Inference and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Using Snowflake Cortex

Product and Technology

Easy and Secure LLM Inference and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Using Snowflake Cortex

Simple and Secure LLM Inference and RAG Using Snowflake Cortex Learn how to use LLMs alongside vector functions all inside of Snowflake.

MAR 05, 2024|7 min read

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