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Sigma Joins Snowflake to Spearhead Open Semantic Interchange: Unlocking Data and AI Interoperability Across the Ecosystem
SAN FRANCISCO, September 23, 2025--Sigma today announced it is joining Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and other industry leaders to launch the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open source initiative that creates a universal specification for all companies to standardize their fragmented data definitions with an open, vendor-neutral semantic model specification. OSI aims to enhance interoperability across various tools and platforms, offering enterprises a vendor-neutral specification t
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