Spring AI is an official open-source framework from Spring designed to simplify the integration and development of AI capabilities in Java applications, providing a unified API across AI providers.
Primarily aimed at developers familiar with Java and the Spring ecosystem, especially teams needing to integrate Generative AI, RAG, or vector search capabilities into enterprise-grade applications.
Requires JDK 17+ and Spring Boot 3.0+ environment, and adding Spring AI dependencies via Maven or Gradle along with configuration for the respective AI providers (e.g., API keys).
Supports a variety of models including intelligent chat, text generation, embedding/vectorization, image generation, and audio processing, compatible with leading providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Azure.
The framework provides a vector database abstraction layer, document ingestion ETL, and prompt templates, enabling developers to rapidly build retrieval-augmented generation workflows that combine external data with large models.
Spring AI itself is an open-source framework and free to use, but calling third-party AI models (such as OpenAI) may incur API usage fees.
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