Capability change
Capability change announced Aug 17, 2026
Snowflake Cortex documents a capability change: “August 17, 2026: AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview) Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview.”
- Hosting route
- First-party API
- Affected scope
- Public preview
- Announced
- Aug 17, 2026
- First seen by ModelClock
- Oct 3, 2026
What the provider published
docs.snowflake.com ↗August 17, 2026: AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)
Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can
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