April 14, 2025 — FILE data type to create tables for multimodal analysis — Preview¶

Snowflake announces the preview of FILE, a new unstructured data type that makes it easy to create tables as inputs to unstructured data analytics. FILE lets you create references to files stored in internal or external stages, which you can then store in tables for multimodal analytics using Cortex AI functions like COMPLETE. In addition to the new data type, this release also includes a suite of utility functions to work with FILE objects. For more information, see see Unstructured data types.