"The Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for the development of AI agent infrastructure. AI agents are machine learning models empowered to access and manipulate other software, such as web browsers. Despite industry acknowledgment that agents pose security problems and IT consultancy Gartner's insistence that many agent-based enterprise projects will be canceled for lack of business value, The Linux Foundation sees value in serving as the Switzerland of free-spending AI firms."
"Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI have contributed three projects respectively to this endeavor: Model Context Protocol (MCP), for integrating LLMs with tools; goose, an open source AI agent framework; and AGENTS.md, the equivalent of a README.md file for machines. "Bringing these projects together under the AAIF ensures they can grow with the transparency and stability that only open governance provides," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, in a statement. "The Linux Foundation is proud to serve as the neutral home where they will continue to build AI infrastructure the world will rely on." Nick Cooper, a member of OpenAI's technical staff, said in a statement that tools and infrastructure must be trustworthy and accessible for AI agents to reach their full potential. "OpenAI has long believed that shared, community-driven protocols are essential to a healthy agentic ecosystem, which is why we've open sourced key building blocks like the Codex CLI, the Agents SDK, and now AGENTS.md," he said."
The Linux Foundation formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for AI agent infrastructure. Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI contributed Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, and AGENTS.md respectively to support integration of LLMs with tools, agent frameworks, and machine-readable agent manifests. AAIF aims to provide transparency and stability through open governance and to make agent tools and infrastructure trustworthy and accessible. Concerns remain about agent security and enterprise business value, with Gartner predicting many agent projects will be canceled. Microsoft reportedly reduced growth targets for Azure Foundry while maintaining aggregate AI product sales quotas.
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