Databricks’ OpenSharing targets the ‘integration tax’ of enterprise AI
Databricks on Wednesday unveiled OpenSharing, a new open protocol designed to let enterprises share AI models, agent skills, dashboards, and unstructured data across platforms without having to copy or move those assets. That sharing is made possible by OpenSharing’s zero-copy credential vending model that allows recipients to securely access shared assets directly from a provider’s cloud storage using temporary, scoped credentials rather than requiring the assets themselves to be copied, moved, or replicated, the company wrote on its GitHub page. Reducing the integration tax of enterprise AI The ability to share AI assets without creating duplicate copies could help reduce integration complexity, improve governance, and limit the operational overhead associated with operationalizing AI systems across environments for CIOs, said Ashish Chaturvedi, leader of executive research at HFS Research. “Every organization building AI, such as multi-agentic systems, is hitting the same wall, i.e.