Artificial Intelligence has moved from being something handled by specialized data-science teams to becoming a feature that application developers can integrate directly into everyday software.

For Java developers, this creates an interesting question:

How do we integrate AI into a Spring Boot application without completely changing the way we build software?

This is where Spring AI comes in.

Spring AI provides Spring-friendly abstractions for working with AI models, embeddings, vector stores, tool calling, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), chat memory, and other AI capabilities. It provides portable APIs so that application code does not have to be tightly coupled to a single AI provider. ([Home][1])