Zoom has bought Onyx, the startup behind an open-source search tool that companies can run entirely on their own servers. In a newsroom post Friday, Zoom said Onyx will remain a standalone platform and stay open source, model-agnostic, app-agnostic and self-hostable.

The deal itself surfaced about a month ago, when co-founders Chris Weaver and Yuhong Sun told their LinkedIn followers they were joining Zoom. Weaver credited “a brilliant 18-person team” in his post and wrote that the founders started the company in 2023 because “we believed enterprise search needed to be open source.” Terms were not disclosed, The SV Post reported , and Zoom’s announcement doesn’t give a price either.

Onyx plugs into more than 50 enterprise applications, including documents, wikis, ticketing systems and customer records, and returns what it finds to employees or to AI agents on request.…