Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch Foundation to Advance Open Source AI Agent Development
Summary
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation to advance open source AI agent development, establishing unified standards for autonomous AI systems that can act independently with minimal human oversight.
Key Points
- Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation to advance open source agentic AI development through collaborative, vendor-neutral governance
- The foundation launches with three founding projects: Block's goose framework, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), and OpenAI's AGENTS.md format, with major tech companies joining as platinum, gold, and silver members
- AAIF aims to establish open standards and protocols for agentic AI systems that can act independently with minimal human direction, preventing fragmentation and ensuring accessibility across the industry