Overview
- Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block co-founded the Agentic AI Foundation and donated their core projects: Model Context Protocol, AGENTS.md, and the Goose agent framework.
- Major members joining at launch include Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare, with additional Gold and Silver members such as Cisco and Docker.
- AAIF operates as a Linux Foundation directed fund where technical steering committees, not funders, set roadmaps, and individual projects retain autonomy over technical direction.
- Anthropic reports MCP’s rapid uptake with 10,000+ active public servers, adoption across ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and VS Code, 97M+ monthly SDK downloads, and a recent spec update adding asynchronous operations, statelessness, server identity, and extensions.
- The foundation plans to evaluate additional open-source agent projects and coordinate interoperability and safety patterns, though observers note higher-layer vendor lock-in risks may persist beyond connection protocols.