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.
Runway announces GWM-1, its first world model
On 11 December 2025, Runway announced GWM-1, a general world model that simulates environments in real time, released in Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants and built on the company's Gen-4.5 model.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, compressing text into images
On 20 October 2025 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-OCR under the MIT License. The model showed that rendering text as images can reduce the number of vision tokens needed for OCR, with decoding precision of about 97 percent at compression under 10x.
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.
Google DeepMind announces the real-time Genie 3 world model
On 5 August 2025 Google DeepMind announced Genie 3, a world model that turns text into navigable environments generated in real time at 24 frames per second and 720p, released as a limited research preview.
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.
Tencent open-sources HunyuanWorld 1.0 for 3D world generation
On 26 July 2025 Tencent open-sourced HunyuanWorld 1.0, a model that builds explorable 3D worlds from text or images, with a technical report.
EleutherAI releases Common Pile v0.1, an openly licensed 8 TB dataset
In June 2025 EleutherAI and its partners released Common Pile v0.1, an 8 TB collection of public-domain and openly licensed text for training language models. The team also used it to train two 7B models.
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.
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.
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.
NVIDIA announces Isaac GR00T N1
On 18 March 2025 NVIDIA announced Isaac GR00T N1, a humanoid robot foundation model released immediately to robotics developers as the first of a family of customizable pretrained models, alongside open simulation tools.
Ai2 releases OLMo 2 32B
On 13 March 2025, Ai2 released OLMo 2 32B, which it called the first fully open model to beat GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini on a suite of academic benchmarks, and published everything needed to reproduce it.
Mistral AI launches Mistral OCR
On 6 March 2025 Mistral AI launched Mistral OCR, a document-understanding API that it said processes up to 2,000 pages per minute, handles thousands of scripts and languages, and scored above GPT-4o on its benchmark.
NVIDIA launches the Cosmos world foundation model platform at CES
On 6 January 2025, at CES, NVIDIA launched Cosmos, a platform of open world foundation models for physical AI used to train robots and autonomous vehicles.
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2 world model
Genie 2 is a Google DeepMind world model, announced on 4 December 2024, that turns a single image into a playable, action-controllable 3D world that people or AI agents can explore with a keyboard and mouse.
Ai2 releases OLMo 2
On 26 November 2024 Ai2 released OLMo 2 in 7B and 13B sizes, publishing data, code, recipes and checkpoints alongside the weights, and described the pair as the best fully open language models to date.
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.
Hugging Face releases SmolLM2
In November 2024 Hugging Face released SmolLM2, a family of small language models at 135M, 360M and 1.7B parameters, with open weights, an instruct variant and a technical report that made the recipe public.
Hugging Face releases the SmolLM small language models
On 16 July 2024 Hugging Face released SmolLM, a family of small models for on-device use in 135M, 360M and 1.7B sizes, together with SmolLM-Corpus, the training dataset behind them.