Julian Forero

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Snowflake

Julian is a product marketer with experience in both high-growth startups and established enterprise software and infrastructure providers. Prior to Snowflake, Julian was part of Confluent during the fast-growing journey to IPO. He began his career at IBM where, as a consultant, he advised large enterprises on their machine learning and analytics strategy. Julian holds an aerospace engineering undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Chicago. During his free time, Julian enjoys road biking around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Product and Technology

Announcing DeepSeek-R1 in Preview on Snowflake Cortex AI

DeepSeek-R1 on Snowflake Cortex AI: a top-performing open-source model optimized for math, code, and reasoning tasks. Access via SQL, Python, or REST API.

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JAN 29, 2025|4 min read

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Snowflake Cortex LLM Functions Moves to General Availability with New LLMs, Improved Retrieval and Enhanced AI Safety

Bring generative AI securely to governed data.

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Easy and Secure LLM Inference and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Using Snowflake Cortex

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Snowpark Container Services: Securely Deploy and run Sophisticated Generative AI and full-stack apps in Snowflake

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Snowflake partners have taken the lead in leveraging data programmability advancements to enhance users’ experience across many steps of the data science workflow.

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