The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmented AI ecosystem. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, the program establishes open, community-driven standards to ensure AI applications run reliably and portably across different Kubernetes platforms. VMware by Broadcom’s vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is among the first platforms to achieve certification.