Cortex Search

Cortex Search is a Snowflake ai / ml capability, introduced July 2024.

Managed retrieval service for low-latency, high-quality fuzzy search over Snowflake data, typically as the retrieval half of a RAG application.

• It is not a pure vector index - quality comes from combining vector search, keyword search and semantic reranking behind one API. 🔗
• Its default embedding model is one Snowflake trained itself, snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1.5. 🔗

Category

AI / ML

Introduced

July 2024🔗

Verified

2026-09-12