Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI Foundation with backing from Anthropic, OpenAI and Block
Summary
The Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new directed fund to steward open standards and infrastructure for agentic AI systems. Founding contributions include Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md spec, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg and Cloudflare, aiming to make AI agents interoperable, vendor‑neutral and safer at scale.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.
Founding members created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to fund and govern open standards like MCP, goose and AGENTS.md for interoperable agentic AI.
Microsoft pledged $23 billion in new AI investments, led by a $17.5 billion India program and a $5.4 billion Canada program to build data centers, hyperscale cloud and AI skills.
Accenture and Anthropic formed a new business group and training program around Claude to bring production-grade AI services to tens of thousands of Accenture staff and clients.
Accenture and Anthropic entered a multi‑year strategic partnership to co‑invest in a dedicated business group, training 30,000 Accenture staff on Claude and co‑developing AI solutions for regulated industries.
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