Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Summary
Anthropic announces the donation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation, a new Linux Foundation directed fund co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI.
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The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a directed fund under the Linux Foundation co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg.
Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation, where it will join goose by Block and AGENTS.md by OpenAI as founding projects.
The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. The Agentic AI Foundation aims to ensure agentic AI evolves through strategic investment and shared open standards.