Snowflake Adds Low-Latency Decision Model With Sub-300 ms Responses
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Global – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake has released snowflake-decision-fast in private preview, a lower-latency decision model whose endpoint round trips consistently complete in under 300 ms, according to the company. The release comes two weeks after Snowflake introduced the original Snowflake Decision in Cortex AI Functions.
Snowflake targets latency-sensitive workflows with three new capabilities
Customers asked for faster responses in live routing steps, real-time fraud checks and an agent's first triage hop, Snowflake said. The preview adds snowflake-decision-fast, REST API access through Cortex AI Gateway, and native availability of the new model through AI_COMPLETE in SQL. All three run under the existing governance, access-control and audit policies.