On 10 June, the Linux Foundation announced OpenSharing, a vendor-neutral protocol contributed by Databricks that builds on Delta Sharing to extend sharing from data into AI models, agent skills, and unstructured data. Delta Sharing already runs between thousands of enterprise customers including Stripe, SAP, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Atlassian. Akram Chetibi, Director of Product Management at Databricks, stated that building on Delta Sharing meant extending a proven model and an existing ecosystem of connectors. Partners like OpenAI are also interested in a standard, secure way to discover and authorize access to AI assets. OpenSharing provides APIs for discovering and authorizing access to stored assets, such as agent skills or AI models, and vends temporary credentials for secure access at the storage layer. It is optimized for secure, private sharing of proprietary assets, enabling use-cases like data monetization, licensing, and secure collaboration.