Overview
- Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol, Block contributed the Goose agent framework, and OpenAI added AGENTS.md as the foundation’s three founding projects.
- Top-tier participants include Microsoft, Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg, with tooling firms such as Cisco and Docker joining as Gold members under the new umbrella.
- MCP reports 97 million-plus monthly SDK downloads, more than 10,000 active servers, broad support across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, and VS Code, and recent spec updates for async operations, statelessness, server identity, and extensions.
- Set up as a directed fund, the AAIF assigns strategy and budgeting to a Governing Board while individual projects retain full technical autonomy and day-to-day control.
- The foundation plans community programming including an MCP Dev Summit in New York in April, as analysts note that open standards reduce but do not eliminate higher-level vendor lock-in and security concerns around agents.