Jeff Hollan
@jeffhollan
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Director of Product @ Snowflake ❄️ 🏂 Head of AI Agents and Cortex Apps. KEDA / Azure Container Apps co-creator. I build cloud stuff ☁️ Opinions my own
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2010
Tomorrow on TITV: -Olga Shevorenkova, CEO of @ev_loop -@jeffhollan, Head of Cortex AI Agents at @Snowflake 📺 Tune in at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET on
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Ready to be at the forefront of AI innovation? 🤖 Join the inaugural Silicon Valley AI Hub hackathon on Friday, September 26th in Menlo Park! This is your chance to build amazing projects with multimodal agents applied to data. You'll also be one of the first people to see the
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Introducing Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark™, now in Public Preview. Building on the decoupled architecture of Spark Connect, Snowpark Connect allows you to run all your compatible Spark SQL, DataFrame, and UDF code directly on the Snowflake platform. This means you get the
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I love single sign on because you only have to sign on once, 8 times a day
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Love this idea. I love hearing from my coworkers and peers how and where they are finding value. I also always try to share with others all the pockets I’m seeing huge improvements in my productivity from AI
One practice we’ve implemented in going AI-first at Box is every week someone demos their AI workflow to the whole company. Usually it’s something we never would’ve predicted. Good to balance central planning for tech and decentralization for use case adoption.
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Result? Pipeline humming on my rig by Sunday using current state-of-the-art OSS. No more stale advice—Grok 4 pulls live data, thinks step-by-step - it really became an AI pipeline expert for me. The details were mind blowing 🚀
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Upgraded to Grok 4 for the tough stuff: Manipulating images using vid-2-vid. Asked Grok 4: It browsed fresh GitHub repos in real-time, reasoned obstacles, spat out succinct options. Cutting-edge, not 6-months-old “yesterday’s news” I would get from other models - and that
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I started with Grok 3 (free) after hitting a dead end with others. Y I was building an image gen pipeline on my home GPU w/ ComfyUI. Hit roadblocks. ChatGPT? Vague, outdated libs from a year ago. Grok 3? Laser-specific: “Add ControlNet like this, tweak APIs here.” Unblocked in
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I’ve tested ‘em all: Gemini for long-form writing ✍️, ChatGPT for quick queries 🔍, Claude for coding in VS Code 💻. But benchmarks? I’m always skeptical. Grok 4’s release had me curious—does it deliver real utility? Spoiler: YES.
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As a PM in tech + AI, I’m always chasing the bleeding edge of AI to supercharge my productivity. This weekend, I went from skeptic to believer in Grok 4 for building a genAI pipeline. For AI dev workflows, it’s a game-changer—worth every penny of the sub @xai. Here’s why devs &
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Tired of dashboards that only show the "what"? Get ready for the "WHY"! 🤯 @Snowflake Intelligence, our new conversational AI experience, lets you talk to ALL your enterprise data (structured & unstructured!) to uncover deep insights. Secure, governed, and transformative. 🔥
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Thrilled to share that Snowflake is the Official Data Collaboration Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 🥇 From wearables to on-field insights to fan engagements, data plays such a critical role in creating the Olympic and Paralympic experience, and we at
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A strong start to the year at @Snowflake. We delivered our first-ever $1 billion revenue quarter. Q1 Product Revenue grew an impressive 26% YoY. Given our strong results, we’re raising our growth outlook for the year. Our mission at Snowflake is to empower every enterprise to
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available in Snowflake Cortex AI. Build and scale trusted AI solutions within Snowflake's secure environment. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the first model to offer hybrid reasoning, allowing customers to configure when they want the model to answer quickly and when
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AI is not a bet—it’s a business imperative. 💰The average return on AI investments is $1.41 for every $1 invested. That number will only go up. I speak with customers every week—most teams have AI use cases they can execute right now. Here’s a look at what’s holding them back,
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Cortex Agents are out, with @AnthropicAI as a key LLM powering it. ➡️ Orchestrate across structured and unstructured data sources ➡️ State of the art retrieval: Cortex Analyst with agentic text-to-SQL for high-quality structured data retrieval. Cortex Search with state of the
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What DeepSeek has shown us is that the "race" in AI is far from over. It’s not about how much they spent or where they’re based—it’s about the pace of innovation. The message we need to hear loud and clear is to keep pushing boundaries, knowing that disruption can come from
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AI is developing at lightning-fast speeds. What is seen as game-changing on a Monday could be seen as behind the curve by Friday. Investors have been reminded of that this week as AI darling stocks...
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Never forget the Seahawks’ unreal OT comeback win over the Packers in the 2014 NFC Championship. 🔥 (via NFL, FOX)
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Attention Azure developers! Snowpark Container Services is now GA in both Azure and AWS commercial regions for all your containerized workloads 📷 Easily and securely deploy everything from conversational app front-ends and large-scale inference with open source models, all
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