Snowflake CEO Warns Models Make Software Data Pipes

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy warned on Alex Kantrowitz's Big Technology Podcast last week that major model makers, including OpenAI, are seeking to centralize enterprise data to power their AI systems. He said this could reduce traditional software firms to 'dumb data pipes' and urged customers to control how their data is accessed—either via their own agents or third-party products like ChatGPT.