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December 9, 2025 in Press

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

  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…
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December 9, 2025 in News

Block: Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation

Today, the industry is making a pivotal choice. Block, Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leaders in AI are launching the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to ensure agentic AI develops as an…
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December 9, 2025 in News

The New Stack: Anthropic Donates the MCP Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol is only a year old, but has quickly become the default for large language models (LLMs) to access data, tools and services in agentic loops. Now,…
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December 9, 2025 in News

TechCrunch: OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era

As AI moves beyond chatbots and towards systems that can take actions, the Linux Foundation is launching a new group dedicated to keeping AI agents from splintering into a mess…
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December 9, 2025 in News

OpenAI: OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation

Today, OpenAI is co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)⁠(opens in a new window) under the Linux Foundation, alongside Anthropic and Block, and with the support of Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg,…
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December 9, 2025 in News

Wired: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools.
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December 9, 2025 in News

Anthropic: Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

Today, we’re donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with support from…
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December 9, 2025 in News

Techzine: Newly launched Agentic AI Foundation to take charge of MCP’s future

The brand-new Agentic AI Foundation has been launched by the Linux Foundation. Three projects form the basis for this new foundation: Anthropic’s hugely successful Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose,…
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December 9, 2025 in News

SDTimes: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md

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December 9, 2025 in News

Silicon Angle: Linux Foundation announces Agentic AI Foundation joined by Anthropic, OpenAI, Block

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit supporting open-source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel, today announced the formation of the Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation alongside major contributions of innovative…
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