Press Release by The Linux Foundation: “… announced the launch of the OpenSharing Project, an open, vendor-neutral protocol designed to standardize how organizations share AI assets and data. Hosted by the Linux Foundation and contributed by Databricks, OpenSharing evolves the widely adopted Delta Sharing protocol to meet the requirements of the agentic era, providing the first unified framework for exchanging agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data volumes across disparate platforms.
As enterprises accelerate the deployment of agentic AI, the lack of a standardized exchange protocol has forced organizations to rely on point-to-point integrations or proprietary marketplaces. OpenSharing eliminates these silos by enabling secure, cross-organizational sharing through a single, open protocol. By abstracting underlying storage complexities, the project allows enterprises to publish AI assets and data that can be consumed by anyone, regardless of their specific cloud environment or platform.
“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,” said Jim Zemlin, CEO, Linux Foundation. “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.”
A key aspect of OpenSharing is its support for interoperability across multiple open table formats and data-sharing approaches. Building on Delta Sharing’s open connectors that support a wide range of platforms, OpenSharing expands this cross-platform interoperability with support for Iceberg IRC clients, expanding the universe of reachable recipients. This broadens compatibility across data platforms and reduces fragmentation through a more consistent and collaborative sharing model.
“Delta Sharing proved the industry would choose open over locked-in,” said Matei Zaharia, Co-founder and CTO of Databricks. “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.”..(More)”.
