Prime Highlights:
- Major tech companies, including Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, have joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)to create an open-source platform for automated workflows.
- The foundation will follow the Linux Foundation’s governance model, ensuring transparency and long-term industry collaboration.
Key Facts:
- Tools like Block’s Goose frameworkand OpenAI’s AGENTS.md are already used by tens of thousands of projects and platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and Gemini.
- Platinum-tier members of AAIF include Microsoft, OpenAI, AWS, Google, Block, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare, with other major firms like Cisco, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce participating as well.
Background:
The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a collaborative initiative bringing together leading tech companies to create an open-source ecosystem for autonomous AI agents.
The foundation’s initial efforts will focus on three key projects: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s Goose agent framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. These tools are already used by tens of thousands of projects and business platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and Gemini.
Platinum-tier members of the foundation include Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, Google, Block, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare, while other major tech firms such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce participate at a lower tier.
“AI is entering a new phase, as conversational systems evolve into autonomous agents capable of working together,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “By uniting these projects under the AAIF, we ensure transparency, stability, and long-term growth through open governance.”
Anthropic’s MCP has quickly become a standard for connecting AI models to data, tools, and applications. Block’s Goose framework helps organize automated workflows, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md gives a standard way to guide coding projects.
Microsoft’s Chris DiBona said, “To succeed, we need to work together openly. The AAIF provides a clear path for the industry.”
The foundation will use the Linux Foundation’s governance model, which has supported projects like Kubernetes and PyTorch, showing strong industry support for building future technology.
