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.
Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 22 October 2026 Anthropic handed the Agent Skills open standard — its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain — to the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, after more than 70 agent platforms had adopted it.
MCP publishes the 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core
On 28 July 2026 the Model Context Protocol project published a specification built on a stateless core, turning MCP into a request/response protocol whose requests any instance behind a plain round-robin load balancer can serve.
Ai2 introduces Olmo Hybrid
On 5 March 2026 Ai2 released Olmo Hybrid, a fully open 7B model that stacks Gated DeltaNet linear-RNN layers with attention layers in a 3:1 ratio and reaches Olmo 3's MMLU accuracy with 49% fewer training tokens.
India hosts the AI Impact Summit 2026
India hosted the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16 to 21 February 2026, the first edition of the global AI summit series held in the Global South. A declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and organisations, and 13 model providers signed frontier AI commitments.
TSMC CoWoS packaging stays sold out as AI demand outruns capacity
TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging places logic dies and HBM stacks on a silicon interposer; capacity remains sold out, and TSMC is expanding in Tainan and Chiayi while developing panel-level CoPoS.
Cambricon MLU 690 enters mass production
Cambricon's next flagship cloud training chip, the MLU 690, entered mass production in early 2026, pairing a dual-die package with more than 700 TFLOPS of FP16 compute and 196 GB of HBM3 memory.
Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 9 December 2025, Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation; MCP became a founding project alongside Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md while retaining technical autonomy.
Hugging Face announces Transformers v5
On 1 December 2025 Hugging Face released Transformers v5.0.0rc0, the first major version since v4 in November 2020. The library grew from about 40 architectures to more than 400.
MCP publishes the November 2025 specification
On 25 November 2025 the Model Context Protocol project published its November 2025 specification, adding task-based workflows, simpler authorisation, security and enterprise features, a formal extension mechanism, and new elicitation and sampling modes.
Yann LeCun leaves Meta to found an AI startup
On 19 November 2025 Yann LeCun confirmed that he would leave Meta after ten years to found an AI startup focused on advanced machine intelligence. Meta was to be a partner of the new company.
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.
Huawei publishes three-year Ascend roadmap
At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, Huawei published its first three-year Ascend chip roadmap, running to 2028, alongside new Atlas SuperPoD systems and a pledge to open source CANN.
Qwen releases Qwen3-Next with hybrid linear attention
In September 2025 Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3-Next, an 80B-parameter open model with 3B parameters active per token, built on a hybrid of linear attention and sparse mixture-of-experts layers.
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.
Linux Foundation takes over the A2A protocol
The Linux Foundation announced the Agent2Agent project on 23 June 2025, taking stewardship of Google's open protocol for secure communication between autonomous AI agents and placing it under vendor-neutral governance.
US AI Safety Institute becomes the Center for AI Standards and Innovation
On 3 June 2025 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the U.S. AI Safety Institute, housed in NIST, would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a pro-innovation body focused on voluntary standards, industry testing and unclassified national-security evaluations.
Microsoft publishes Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system
Aurora is a foundation model for the Earth system whose Nature paper, published on 21 May 2025 and promoted by Microsoft Research the same month, reports better than operational forecasts across four domains at far lower compute.
Physical Intelligence releases pi-0.5
Physical Intelligence released π0.5 on 22 April 2025, a vision-language-action model built on its earlier π0 that the company says can carry out household tasks in homes it never saw during training.
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.