"Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we're living in the era of AI agents, but most of what we've been promised is still theoretical. As companies race to turn fantasy into reality, they've developed a collection of tools to guide the development of generative AI. A cadre of major players in the AI race, including Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, has come together to promote interoperability with the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). This move elevates a handful of popular technologies and could make them a de facto standard for AI development going forward."
"Since its release, MCP has been widely used across the AI industry. Google announced at I/O 2025 that it was adding support for MCP in its dev tools, and many of its products have since added MCP servers to make data more accessible to agents. OpenAI also adopted MCP just a few months after it was released. Expanding use of MCP might help users customize their AI experience. For instance, the new Pebble Index 01 ring uses a local LLM that can act on your voice notes, and it supports MCP for user customization."
A coalition of major AI companies created the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation to govern three agent technologies: Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, and AGENTS.md. MCP aims to standardize how agents connect to data sources, described as a "USB-C port for AI," allowing developers to connect to any MCP-compliant server rather than building custom integrations. MCP was open-sourced by Anthropic and has seen adoption by Google and OpenAI, with products adding MCP servers. Broader MCP use could enable user customization for local LLM devices despite trade-offs with cloud models.
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