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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UK renames its AI Safety Institute as the AI Security Institute
On 14 February 2025, the UK minister for science, innovation and technology announced at the Munich Security Conference that the AI Safety Institute would become the AI Security Institute, focusing on security-related risks and adding a criminal misuse team.
Paris AI Action Summit closes with 60 signatories and no US or UK signature
France and India co-hosted the Paris AI Action Summit on 10–11 February 2025, where 60 countries and international organisations signed a statement on inclusive, sustainable AI. The United States and the United Kingdom did not sign.
Trump revokes Executive Order 14110
On 20 January 2025, Executive Order 14148 revoked Executive Order 14110 of 30 October 2023, and a separate order signed on 23 January 2025 replaced its policy direction with a push for American AI dominance and a 180-day action plan.
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.
OSI releases Open Source AI Definition 1.0
On 28 October 2024 the Open Source Initiative released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, a community-designed standard for what may be called open source AI.
AI Seoul Summit adopts the Seoul Declaration
On 21 May 2024, ten countries and the European Union signed the Seoul Declaration at the AI Seoul Summit, one of three outcome documents that tied government statements to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments and the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct.
Stability AI previews Stable Diffusion 3
On 22 February 2024 Stability AI announced an early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, a text-to-image suite from 800M to 8B parameters that combines a diffusion transformer with flow matching.