Linux Foundation to standardize AI data and asset sharing with OpenSharing project
Linux Foundation to standardize AI data and asset sharing with OpenSharing project
Publish Date: 2026-06-11 08:48:00
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The Linux Foundation’s latest project will look to create vendor-neutral protocols for organizations sharing AI assets and data.
The aptly named OpenSharing Project will be hosted by the nonprofit, with data analytics giant Databricks contributing to the effort. It’ll aim to create an open means to exchanging agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data volumes, leaning on learnings from the Delta Sharing protocol.
The OpenSharing Project comes as enterprises rushing to join the agentic hypetrain lack the standardized means ot exchange information effectively, an issue the Linux Foundation contends forces firms to rely on point-to-point integrations or proprietary marketplaces.
The project looks to enable secure, cross-organizational sharing through a single, open protocol, allowing enterprises to publish AI assets and data consumable by anyone, regardless of platform or hosting environment.
“OpenSharing addresses a critical need for a common, vendor-neutral framework that enables organizations to exchange AI assets securely and interoperably across platforms and ecosystems,” Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin explained. “By bringing this technology to the Linux Foundation, we can foster open collaboration, broad industry participation, and the shared governance needed to accelerate AI innovation at scale.”
While the existing Delta Sharing protocol features connectors that support a range of platforms, the nonprofit claims the forthcoming OpenSharing effort will expand cross-platform interoperability for Apache Iceberg recipients.
“Delta Sharing proved the industry would choose open over locked-in,” Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia noted. “OpenSharing extends that principle to the full AI stack, while expanding the cross-platform ecosystem to Iceberg recipients and on-premises providers. The agentic era deserves an open foundation, and OpenSharing delivers it.”
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