As enterprises grapple with governing growing fleets of AI agents, Snowflake has unveiled Cortex AI Gateway, a new runtime control plane designed to help organizations track agent actions, enforce policies, and manage AI spending across models and tools. Built on technology acquired through the purchase of Natoma earlier in May, Cortex AI Gateway “acts as an execution layer” that applies governance policies defined in Horizon Catalog while routing requests and enforcing cost controls across first- and third-party AI agents in an enterprise, said Artin Avanes, head of core data platform at Snowflake. “Its role is to provide a trusted control plane that governs how AI agents securely access models, tools, MCP servers, enterprise systems, and data across increasingly diverse AI environments as enterprises adopt more models and agents for their applications and workflows,” Avanes added.