April 12, 2024 — Snowflake Cortex LLM Release Notes

We’re pleased to announce three changes that will make it easier for you to build generative AI workflows using Cortex LLM Functions.

  • The reka-flash model is now available for text completion tasks. reka-flash is a high-quality model optimized for fast processing. The model is now available is AWS US East (N. Virginia) and AWS US West (Oregon). For more information about this model, see reka.ai.

  • The mixtral-8x7b model is now 56% more cost-efficient, with the credits per million tokens cut to 0.22 from 0.50.

  • The mixtral-8x7b model is now available for use in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) and Azure West Europe (Netherlands).

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