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Major New Release of Oracle’s Flagship Database Architects AI into its Core


Oracle AI Database 26ai architects AI into the core of data management, furthering Oracle’s commitment to help customers securely bring AI to all their data, everywhere.

According to the company, this milestone advances Oracle’s “AI for Data” vision of a next-generation AI-native database with use of AI across the entire data and development stack, including AI Vector Search, AI for Database Management, AI for Data Development, AI for Application Development, and AI for Analytics.

Customers can now run dynamic agentic AI workflows to provide sophisticated answers and actions that combine private database data with public information.

“By architecting AI and data together, Oracle AI Database makes ‘AI for Data’ simple to learn and simple to use,” said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Oracle Database Technologies, Oracle. “We enable our customers to easily deliver trusted AI insights, innovations, and productivity for all their data, everywhere, including both operational systems and analytic data lakes.”

Oracle’s “AI for Data” strategy is open and ubiquitous. Oracle AI Database’s built-in AI capabilities provide customers with wide freedom of choice when building and deploying AI applications including support for: the Apache Iceberg open table format; Model Context Protocol (MCP); industry-leading LLMs; popular agentic AI frameworks; and Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) embedding models.

Oracle AI Database’s mission-critical functionality brings AI to data securely, efficiently, and reliably wherever it resides—Oracle Cloud, leading hyperscale clouds, private cloud, or on-premises, the company said.

Oracle AI Database implements NIST-approved quantum-resistant algorithms (ML-KEM) to encrypt data-in-flight.

Combined with the existing support for quantum-resistant encryption for data-at-rest, Oracle AI Database’s data protection approach is designed to prevent hackers from harvesting organizational data now and decrypting it using quantum computers later.

Oracle AI Database 26ai is a long-term support release that replaces Oracle Database 23ai.

Customers can simply apply the October 2025 release update to transition from 23ai to the currently available features of 26ai. Customers will receive the immediately available features and will be ready for additional features as they are released.

There is no database upgrade or application re-certification required. Advanced AI features such as AI Vector Search are included at no additional charge.

For more information about this news, visit www.oracle.com.

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