Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI Foundation with backing from Anthropic, OpenAI and Block

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.