Backed by AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others, the AAIF kicks off with contributed projects from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. Credit: T. Schneider – shutterstock.com The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), which is intended to provide a neutral, open foundation to ensure that agentic AI evolves transparently and collaboratively. Announced December 9, the AAIF is anchored by founding contributions including Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, an open protocol for integrating LLM applications and external data sources and tools; Block’s goose, an AI coding agent; and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, an open format for guiding coding agents. These inaugural projects lay the groundwork for a shared ecosystem of tools, standards, and community-driven innovation, according to the Linux Foundation. “Bringing these projects together under the AAIF ensures they can grow with the transparency and stability that only open governance provides,” said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin in a statement. Founding AAIF members include Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, IBM, JetBrains, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Salesforce. The advent of agentic AI represents a new era of autonomous decision-making and coordination across AI systems that will transform and revolutionize entire industries, the Linux Foundation said. Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISoftware DevelopmentTechnology Industry