Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, has partnered with leading industry players and ecosystem vendors—including Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI—to spearhead the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), a pioneering open-source initiative. In today’s rapidly evolving AI era, fragmented data semantics across platforms and tools often hinder both human and AI-driven analysis. OSI aims to solve this problem by introducing a common, vendor-neutral semantic model specification. This standardization ensures consistent business logic across AI and business intelligence (BI) applications, fostering reliability and interoperability.
“At Snowflake, we’ve long believed that interoperability and open standards are essential to unlocking the full potential of AI with your data,” said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake. “With the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, we are proud to be leading the charge alongside our partners to solve a foundational challenge for AI, the lack of a common semantic standard. This initiative reflects the industry coming together, not competing, to solve shared challenges and build a more connected, open ecosystem for all.”
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Advancing Interoperability and AI Innovation
As AI continues to reshape how businesses leverage data, consistent semantics have become more critical than ever. Currently, tools interpret business metrics and metadata differently, resulting in confusion, slowed adoption, and diminished trust in AI insights. OSI addresses this by providing a unified, vendor-neutral specification for business, domain, and industry semantics. Consequently, organizations can now rely on semantic data that is interoperable across platforms, enabling AI and BI deployments with greater speed, confidence, and trust.
The initiative focuses on three key goals:
- Enhancing interoperability across tools and platforms: OSI creates a shared semantic standard that allows diverse tools to communicate seamlessly. Companies can adopt best-of-breed technologies without compromising consistency in metrics or business logic.
- Accelerating AI and BI adoption: By standardizing semantics, OSI ensures governed, consistent, and context-rich data. This facilitates trustworthy AI insights, accelerating adoption and improving decision-making.
- Streamlining operations and reducing complexity: OSI minimizes the need for teams to reconcile conflicting definitions or duplicate work across platforms. This frees data and AI teams to focus on innovation rather than troubleshooting.
Industry Leaders Unite for an Open, Interoperable Future
Fragmented data definitions remain a significant barrier to AI adoption. To overcome this, Snowflake is collaborating with a growing coalition of partners, including Alation, Atlan, Blue Yonder, Cube, Elementum AI, Hex, Honeydew, Mistral AI, Omni, Select Star, Sigma, and ThoughtSpot, to co-lead the OSI initiative.
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“The future of AI depends on trust—and trust starts with consistent, reliable data,” said Southard Jones, Chief Product Officer, Tableau. “By co-leading the Open Semantic Interchange with Snowflake and our partners, we’re building the foundation every AI agent and BI application needs: a common semantic framework that preserves meaning across platforms. This is the Rosetta Stone for business data, ensuring our customers can harness trusted insights with confidence, no matter where their data lives.”
“Our focus at dbt Labs has always been to empower data teams to work more efficiently,” said Ryan Segar, Chief Product Officer, dbt Labs. “We see the Open Semantic Interchange as a natural extension of this, as it aims to solve the foundational problem of siloed and incompatible data semantics. By creating a universal language for data definitions, this open source initiative will help data practitioners ensure consistency and reliability, which is essential for scaling AI initiatives.”
“At BlackRock, we’re constantly seeking ways to enhance data interoperability and drive innovation for our clients,” said Diwakar Goel, Global Head of Aladdin Data, BlackRock. “The Aladdin platform unifies the investment management process through a common data language across public and private markets, helping clients unlock value and scale. We are excited to be part of the Open Semantic Interchange to help establish a common, vendor-neutral specification that will not only streamline data exchange but also accelerate the adoption of AI and business intelligence applications across the financial industry.”
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