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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SoftBank acquires Graphcore
In July 2024 SoftBank Group acquired Graphcore, which became a wholly owned subsidiary and kept its name and offices; the deal was recorded at about US$500 million, subject to UK government review.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron-4 340B for synthetic data generation
On 14 June 2024 NVIDIA released Nemotron-4 340B, a family of base, instruct and reward models built for generating synthetic training data. It published the models under a permissive license, and the reward model topped RewardBench.
BigCode and NVIDIA release StarCoder2 and The Stack v2
On 28 February 2024 BigCode and NVIDIA released StarCoder2 in 3B, 7B and 15B sizes. The new training set, The Stack v2, is 67.5 TB and is built from the Software Heritage archive.
Ai2 releases OLMo, a fully open language model
On 1 February 2024, the Allen Institute for AI released OLMo, a language model released together with its pretraining data, training code, logs and more than 500 checkpoints per model, all under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Cohere For AI releases Aya, an open model for 101 languages
In February 2024 Cohere For AI released Aya, an instruction-tuned model covering 101 languages. It has 13 billion parameters, uses an Apache 2.0 licence and beats mT0 and BLOOMZ on most tasks, according to its authors.
NVIDIA announces H200 at SC23
On 13 November 2023 NVIDIA announced the HGX H200 at the SC23 conference in Denver, an addition to its Hopper line that twelve server partners and four major cloud providers were named to offer, with shipments expected from the second quarter of 2024.