At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, Carl Meadows unveiled three major announcements positioning OpenSearch as foundational infrastructure for agentic AI. OpenSearch Launchpad enables developers to build hybrid search applications through natural language without deep search expertise, while the OpenSearch Relevance Agent automates search quality improvements based on user behavior data. CERN also joined the OpenSearch Software Foundation, signaling the project’s evolution toward handling the most demanding data workloads in the world as open source.