Google, Microsoft Join Industry Group to Standardize Enterprise Data For AI

Google is in the process of joining Apache Ossie, a software industry group with members such as Snowflake and Nvidia that is trying to make it easier for AI tools to access data from applications and databases, according to a company spokesperson.

The search and cloud provider will be latest major software firm to join Apache Ossie, which has been working since last fall to develop standard definitions of business metrics like gross revenue and net revenue so that AI tools can better understand the context of data. Microsoft also recently became an Apache Ossie member, The Information reported earlier Tuesday.

Google joined an early version of the standards group last November but hadn’t previously revealed its intention to participate in Apache Ossie. That’s because the company was waiting for the project to officially join the Apache Software Foundation, which it did in July, said a person close to Google.