Snowflake CoCo for Excel and Google Sheets: Governed AI

We are excited to bring Snowflake CoCo, the coding agent for data teams, to two of the world’s most used analytical surfaces: Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. These offerings natively integrate governed Snowflake data, semantics and AI within the spreadsheet interface analysts already use. Business users interact with CoCo in natural language to build workbooks with native formulas, charts and pivot tables — without worrying about mundane cell formatting and data integration. As agents become the interface for building spreadsheets, users can accomplish more with greater efficiency with the tools they already use. Spreadsheets have been the dominant interface for interacting with data for over 40 years. Despite this ubiquity, teams find having consistent data across their spreadsheets challenging — with file names, comments and emails marking different versions and sources. Typically, users have three options to connect data: CSV exports: Spreadsheet users download query results, tables or notebook outputs locally to their device. ODBC connectors: Spreadsheet users ask their data…