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Anthropic Inks $200M Deal to Bring LLMs to Snowflake Customers
Gina Acosta
December 05, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Transforming dense research papers into simple, visual explanations just got easier. This tutorial teaches how to use Nano Banana Pro to automatically convert complex academic content into clean, share-ready whiteboard-style images.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Anthropic Inks $200M Deal to Bring LLMs to Snowflake Customers
Meta to Scale Back Metaverse, Pour Big Focus Into AI
AI Tutorial: Turn Complex Research Papers into Whiteboard Visuals
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
ANTHROPIC
Anthropic Inks $200M Deal to Bring LLMs to Snowflake Customers
Anthropic has signed a multi-year, $200 million partnership with Snowflake to integrate Anthropic’s large-language models into Snowflake’s data platform, giving enterprises on Snowflake access to advanced AI built on their own business data.
Details:
The deal will embed Anthropic’s LLMs, including Claude Opus 4.5, into “Snowflake Intelligence,” Snowflake’s enterprise AI offering, enabling multimodal data analysis and the creation of custom AI agents for Snowflake’s customers.
Customers will be able to run AI-driven workflows directly on their data inside Snowflake, without needing to export data externally, emphasising security and context-awareness.
The partnership is positioned as a “go-to-market” initiative that combines Snowflake’s data infrastructure with Anthropic’s generative AI capabilities for enterprise clients worldwide.
This move signals a broader shift: Anthropic, after deals with major firms across consulting and enterprise software, is doubling down on selling to businesses, not just individual users, to accelerate adoption in corporate environments.
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META
Meta to Scale Back Metaverse, Pour Big Focus Into AI as Zuckerberg Shifts Gears
Meta is reportedly slashing spending on its metaverse ambitions next year as CEO Mark Zuckerberg pivots the company’s energy toward artificial-intelligence initiatives. The move underscores how Meta is recalibrating priorities, trading speculative, long-term metaverse bets for the more immediate promise of AI-driven growth and relevance in a fast-evolving tech landscape.
Details:
Meta plans “meaningful” cuts to its metaverse investments, targeting a major shift in 2026.
The company is redirecting resources toward AI development, signalling that generative and agentic AI are now its core strategic bets.
The focus is now on AI glasses and wearables, leveraging positive momentum around its newly launched AI-enabled smart glasses.
The pivot comes amid broader industry pressure, as investors and the market increasingly favor tangible AI advancements over speculative VR/AR metaverse futures.
For Meta, the shift may offer a faster path to monetization and competitive parity with other AI-first firms, but abandoning the metaverse raises questions about its long-term vision and virtual-world ambitions.
AI Tutorial
Turn Complex Research Papers into Whiteboard Visuals with Nano Banana Pro
Go to Gemini, select “Create images” and type a high-level prompt to kick off the whiteboard generation, focusing on compression and visual style.
Go with this prompt:
Take this paper and transform in the image of a professor whiteboard image: diagrams, arrows, boxes, and caption explaining the core ideas visually. Use colors as wellOpen the research paper or long article; no need to screenshot or upload, you can just copy and paste the text from the paper.
Nano Bannana Pro will compress the paper and build the summary iteratively from the prompt to generate your Professor Whiteboard Image.
Download or share your image as PNG.
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AI Findings/Resources
🌍 AI-project launched to improve predictions of Earth and ocean environments
🔬 AI could soon run entire companies, Sam Altman predicts GPT-6 might enable AI to write new science.
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The latest in AI and Tech
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SK Hynix is undergoing a major organizational restructuring, including the creation of a dedicated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) task force in the Americas to provide faster support for key customers and accelerate its push into the AI memory market.
A high-profile former design lead at Apple is joining Meta, signaling that Meta may be doubling down on a design-driven product strategy and underscoring how AI-era tech companies are competing not just with features but with user experience.
GPU maker Moore Threads made its trading debut in Shanghai with a headline-grabbing $1 billion listing, spotlighting China’s bid to challenge global dominance in AI hardware markets and adding momentum to regional competition in AI infrastructure.
Jensen Huang, boss of NVIDIA, publicly lobbied against proposed AI-chip limits and state-level AI regulation, arguing that overregulation could hinder innovation and slow AI development in critical industries.
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