Collate Joins The Linux Foundation to Advance Open Metadata Standards for AI and Data
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 26, 2026 – Collate Inc., the company behind the open source OpenMetadata project, today announced it has joined the Linux Foundation as a Silver Member to help drive the industry shift towards open semantic intelligence. Collate is committed to building vendor-neutral, community-driven solutions that make metadata and semantics accessible for modern data and AI teams. Its membership will facilitate collaboration with the broader data community and contribute to the advancement of open technologies.
Despite heavy investment in data platforms, most organizations still can't fully trust the data powering their decisions. As AI is layered on top, that gap becomes critical: without trusted, semantically rich metadata, AI fails to correctly understand the underlying data, causing systems to hallucinate, deliver wrong answers, and turn governance failures into compliance risks.
"We're pleased to welcome Collate as a Silver Member of the Linux Foundation," said Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation. "Their participation strengthens the global collaboration that drives open source innovation."
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, semantic graphs built on trusted, standards-based metadata will ensure LLM-powered operations are compliant, interoperable, and more intelligent. By joining as a Silver Member, Collate will work with other leading technology providers, users, and open-source communities to help define standards for building scalable AI and data systems.
"Metadata and semantics are essential to the success of AI and data initiatives for any organization, and that foundation must be built on open principles," said Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO of Collate. "Our membership in the Linux Foundation reflects our commitment to making OpenMetadata a resource for the data industry. We believe the data infrastructure in the AI era will require collaboration across the entire ecosystem—vendors, users, and open-source projects working together toward unified standards. the Linux Foundation provides the neutral community for that work."
Collate's Semantic Intelligence Platform is powered by OpenMetadata, and expands programmatic AI access through capabilities like an AI SDK and support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). These additions expose OpenMetadata's semantic metadata graph to developers and automation tools, enabling semantic intelligence to be embedded directly into workflows such as CI/CD pipelines, developer platforms, and AI agents. By grounding semantic metadata in a common standard, OpenMetadata provides the shared context in an open, machine-readable format that AI systems need to operate reliably across enterprise data environments.
By joining more than 1,000 organizations in the Linux Foundation, Collate will work alongside leading technology organizations to shape the open standards that define how enterprises build trustworthy, AI-ready data systems, ensuring that the semantic layer powering tomorrow's AI remains open, interoperable, and community-driven.
About Collate
Collate is the Semantic Intelligence Platform and the company behind the OpenMetadata project. It turns metadata into shared meaning so people and AI can work from the same understanding of data. Collate applies that semantic foundation across discovery, lineage, quality, observability, and governance to enable trusted analytics, explainable AI, and automated governance at enterprise scale. Global 2000 companies and innovative startups rely on Collate to accelerate insights and build AI-ready data foundations. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Collate is backed by world-class investors including Venrock, Unusual Ventures, and Karman Ventures. Learn more at getcollate.io.
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