hex cortex overview, all your questions answered

This post details the integration of Snowflake Cortex LLM Functions within Hex, enabling users to leverage advanced AI capabilities directly within their data workflows. It highlights how Hex simplifies the use of Snowpark and Cortex, offering a "Snowpark Easy Button" for secure session creation and seamless integration of Snowpark dataframes into SQL and Python cells. The post also addresses the use of Cortex LLM Functions for tasks like classifying product recalls and extracting data, discusses considerations for model selection, cost, and context windows, and clarifies the distinction between using managed Snowflake Cortex functions and external APIs like OpenAI. It also touches upon the pushdown compute capabilities of Hex for processing large datasets and the potential for running open-source models in Snowpark Container Services.