The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
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AAIF adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
On 22 October 2026 the Agentic AI Foundation added four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — bringing it to 10 hosted projects covering different layers of the agentic stack.
Physical Intelligence opens the Pi API beta
On 13 October 2026, Physical Intelligence opened a beta of the Pi API, a service that lets customers upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's models and run cloud-hosted inference on their own machines.
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 in Foundry
On 2 April 2026 Mustafa Suleyman announced three Microsoft AI models for developers: MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2. All three became available in Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground, with published model cards.
Alibaba unveils its Zhenwu PPU chip
On 29 January 2026 Alibaba's chip unit T-Head listed the Zhenwu 810E, formally revealing a PPU accelerator the company had kept under wraps and completing its combination of Qwen models, cloud and chips.
Amazon launches Nova 2 and Nova Forge at re:Invent 2025
On 2 December 2025, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon released the Nova 2 family, led by the reasoning model Nova 2 Lite. The same event introduced Nova Forge, made Nova Act generally available and launched Trainium3 UltraServers.
Anthropic introduces Agent Skills
On 16 October 2025 Anthropic introduced Agent Skills, folders of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads when a task calls for them. On 18 December 2025 the format was published as an open standard.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Max, a model of over 1 trillion parameters
In September 2025 Alibaba released Qwen3-Max, a proprietary model with over 1 trillion parameters trained on about 36 trillion tokens. It became the flagship of Alibaba's closed Max tier, released alongside several open Qwen3 models.
Linux Foundation welcomes the AGNTCY project
On 29 July 2025 the Linux Foundation welcomed AGNTCY, an open project for interoperable AI agents, with Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat as formative members.
Amazon Nova Premier becomes generally available
On 30 April 2025 AWS made Amazon Nova Premier generally available in Amazon Bedrock. The model was positioned as a teacher for distilling smaller Nova models and launched in three US regions.
Google announces the Agent2Agent protocol
On 9 April 2025 Google announced Agent2Agent (A2A), an open protocol that lets AI agents from different vendors communicate, exchange information securely and coordinate work. In June 2025 the Linux Foundation said it would host the project.
Amazon introduces Nova Sonic speech-to-speech model
On 8 April 2025 AWS introduced Amazon Nova Sonic, a single speech-to-speech model for voice applications. It launched with English voices and gained more languages by July 2025.
GitHub Copilot agent mode and MCP support roll out to all VS Code users
On 4 April 2025 GitHub released Copilot agent mode and MCP support to all VS Code users, letting the assistant take actions, propose commands and call external tools, with a 56.0% pass rate reported on SWE-bench Verified.
Amazon launches Nova Act
Amazon announced Nova Act on 31 March 2025 as a developer research preview: a system that carries out tasks in web interfaces as small, testable commands written alongside Python code, and first used publicly inside Alexa+.
NVIDIA announces Blackwell Ultra
NVIDIA announced Blackwell Ultra at GTC in San Jose on 18 March 2025, a platform aimed at AI training and at inference that spends more compute per answer, alongside new HGX B300 NVL16 systems and named server and cloud partners.
Huawei launches the Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD
Huawei's Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD, launched in March 2025, links up to 384 Ascend 910C chips into one logical computer rated at up to 300 PFLOPS, and is sold in cloud form as CloudMatrix384.
Tencent releases Hunyuan Turbo S, a fast-thinking model
On 27 February 2025 Tencent released Hunyuan Turbo S, saying it replies faster than DeepSeek-R1. The model was offered through a Tencent Cloud API, and its weights were not released.
Alibaba unveils Qwen2.5-Max, claiming wins over DeepSeek V3
On 28 January 2025 Alibaba unveiled Qwen2.5-Max and said its instruct model beat DeepSeek V3 on several benchmarks. The model's weights were not released, and access went through Qwen Chat and the Alibaba Cloud API.
Amazon introduces the Nova foundation models
On 3 December 2024, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced the Nova family of foundation models, starting with Nova Micro, Lite and Pro for understanding tasks and Nova Canvas and Reel for images and video. Nova Premier was announced for early 2025.
Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol
On 25 November 2024 Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol, a standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives. In December 2025 Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
Tencent launches Hunyuan Turbo on Tencent Cloud
In September 2024 Tencent introduced its next-generation Hunyuan Turbo model and made it available on Tencent Cloud, claiming large efficiency gains and parity with GPT-4o on various benchmarks.