It seems like we’re finally developing a newfound respect for search engines in the age of AI, and the OpenSearch Foundation is currently riding that massive wave of innovation. Bianca Lewis stopped by at KubeCon Europe to explain how moving beyond basic vector databases to a highly efficient hybrid search is the key to keeping generative AI from hallucinating out of control. As organizations grapple with strict compliance rules and the rise of agentic AI, it turns out that bringing the compute back to the data might just be the ultimate blast from the past we need to secure our data sovereignty.