Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

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"With founding contributions from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, the AAIF unites cutting-edge technology and open source governance to shape the future of open and accessible AI

Summary

• The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with founding contributions of leading technical projects including Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md.
• The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure agentic AI evolves transparently and collaboratively.
• MCP is the universal standard protocol for connecting AI models to tools, data and applications; goose is an open source, local-first AI agent framework that combines language models, extensible tools, and standardized MCP-based integration; AGENTS.md is a simple, universal standard that gives AI coding agents a consistent source of project-specific guidance needed to operate reliably across different repositories and toolchains.
• Platinum members include Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

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 The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and founding contributions of three leading projects driving innovation in open source AI; Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md."

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md – Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

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