The OpenSearch Software Foundation, the vendor-neutral home for the OpenSearch Project, announced that IBM, a leading provider of global AI, hybrid cloud, and consulting expertise, has joined the Foundation as a Premier Member.
With the rapid adoption of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to power AI applications, developers and enterprises need transparent, performant, and community-governed search infrastructure, the vendor said. This investment from IBM signals a broader shift toward open agentic ecosystems with open source tools and frameworks at the core.
“IBM’s commitment to the OpenSearch Software Foundation is a testament to the role open source search and analytics play in AI-enabled enterprises of the future,” said Bianca Lewis, executive director of the OpenSearch Software Foundation. “Our member organizations help shape and develop the tools and technology that make intelligent operations a reality, and we are thrilled that IBM has joined the Foundation, strengthening our community and mission.”
IBM’s membership builds on its existing open source efforts with OpenSearch and as a Premier Member, IBM aims to deepen integration between OpenSearch and its open source ecosystem, improving vector search performance, multimodal document ingestion, and developer experience for AI agents.
It also plans to contribute enterprise-grade enhancements to OpenSearch’s observability and security solutions as well as high-availability patterns tested through IBM Cloud deployments.
"As part of IBM's work in the evolution of AI, we're thrilled to contribute to the development of OpenSearch," said Ed Anuff, vice president of data and Al platform strategy at IBM. "By joining the Foundation, we are helping ensure that production generative Al can be built on a robust open source foundation."
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