Tech Giants Unite to Launch Agentic AI Foundation Under Linux Foundation

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block have joined hands to create the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new open-source organisation operating under the Linux Foundation. The initiative is designed to establish shared, interoperable standards for agentic AI a rapidly growing class of systems that act autonomously, coordinate tasks and interact with other tools.The move has drawn support from major industry players including Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg and Cloudflare, signalling an unusually broad consensus around the need for common infrastructure as agentic AI moves into large-scale deployment.

As part of the collaboration, each founding company is handing over widely used technologies to the new foundation. Anthropic is contributing its Model Context Protocol, which enables agents to connect and exchange information. OpenAI has donated AGENTS.md, a format used to give structured instructions to coding agents already adopted by more than 60,000 open-source projects since its release in 2025. Block is adding its Goose framework, a foundation for building agentic tools.These resources were previously free to use, but their transfer to AAIF places them under community-driven governance, ensuring they evolve with input from developers across the ecosystem.

The Linux Foundation will provide neutral oversight, drawing from its long experience managing large-scale open-source efforts. By bringing core agentic AI standards under one umbrella, AAIF aims to prevent fragmentation, strengthen compatibility between systems and support safer, more scalable real-world adoption.