OpenSharing extends Delta Sharing to AI assets – and stops where your contracts begin
If you want to share an AI model between two companies today, your options are either to pay for custom integration work, or sign up to someone's marketplace and hope you like the terms. On 10 June the Linux Foundation announced OpenSharing, a vendor-neutral protocol contributed by Databricks that aims to fix that. It builds on Delta Sharing – the same protocol that's already running between thousands of enterprise customers including Stripe, SAP, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Atlassian – and extends the model from data into AI models, agent skills, and unstructured data.
Akram Chetibi, Director of Product Management at Databricks, is emphatic about both what the protocol does and where it deliberately stops.
The decision to build on Delta Sharing rather than start fresh all comes down to who's already on it. Chetibi explains:
Delta Sharing already had thousands of enterprise customers and partners, and adoption...
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