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).