Snowflake's CEO says software giants risk becoming a 'dumb data pipe' to AI models

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• Snowflake's CEO warned that software companies may become mere data sources to AI labs.
• AI firms like OpenAI are aiming to consolidate enterprise data in one place, he said.
• He said that the solution is to let customers decide how they want to access their data.

The biggest software companies might be reduced to mere data sources, says Snowflake's CEO.