Marina Lyubimova
⬤ Anthropic just announced it's handing over the Model Context Protocol to the brand-new Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project. The foundation was co-created by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with heavy hitters like Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg joining in. This is essentially the industry coming together to build shared, open standards for AI agents as they become more mainstream across consumer and business apps.
⬤ MCP is already seeing serious adoption. The protocol now works with ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, plus a ton of developer tools. The numbers tell the story: over 10,000 public servers are running it, and there are more than 97 million monthly SDK downloads. That's a clear signal that developers want standardized ways for AI systems to connect with tools, data, and apps securely.
By placing MCP under the Linux Foundation structure, the initiative positions itself to attract a wide coalition of contributors and maintain governance aligned with longstanding open-source practices.
⬤ The whole point of creating the Agentic AI Foundation is to keep this development open and neutral—no single company calling the shots. Using the Linux Foundation's framework means governance stays transparent and follows proven open-source principles. With OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and others all participating, it's clear the industry sees common standards as critical now that AI agents are getting baked into everything from software to cloud platforms.
⬤ This matters because agentic AI is evolving fast and becoming core to next-gen AI products. Setting up unified protocols now could determine how platforms connect and scale going forward. As MCP adoption keeps growing, this foundation will likely set the tone for how open, secure, and compatible AI agent systems need to be in the years ahead.
Marina Lyubimova
