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.
Runway publishes GWM Worlds 2, a real-time interactive world model
Runway published GWM Worlds 2 on 3 September 2026, a research preview that turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into a real-time interactive world model steered by text actions and camera motion.
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.
Mistral AI introduces Robostral Navigate for robots
On 8 July 2026 Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that steers robots from camera images and spoken-style instructions, trained entirely in simulation and scoring 76.6% on a standard navigation benchmark.
LG AI Research open-weights its first vision language model, EXAONE 4.5
On 9 April 2026 LG AI Research released EXAONE 4.5, its first open-weight multimodal model: a 33B vision-language system aimed at document understanding, with a 256K context window and the earlier EXAONE licence.
Reka releases the 7B edge vision-language model Reka Edge
On 11 March 2026 Reka released Reka Edge, a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model built for physical AI on devices rather than in the cloud, with a 3.5-bit quantization format and comparisons against Qwen3.5 9B, Cosmos Reason2 8B and Gemini 3 Pro.
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.
Ai2 releases Molmo 2 for video understanding
On 11 December 2025 Ai2 released Molmo 2, an open-weights family of vision-language models that adds pointing, tracking and grounded question answering in video, in 8B, 4B and 7B versions.
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.
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.
Meta releases SAM 3 and SAM 3D
On 19 November 2025 Meta released SAM 3, which detects, segments and tracks objects from text or visual prompts, and SAM 3D, which reconstructs 3D objects and human bodies from a single image. Both were released as open models.
Baidu open-sources ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking
In November 2025 Baidu released ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, an open-weight vision-language model that reasons with images — zooming into details and calling image search mid-thought — and reports a ChartQA score above Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.
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.
ByteDance releases UI-TARS-2
ByteDance Seed posted the UI-TARS-2 technical report on 2 September 2025 and released it on GitHub on 4 September. It was trained with multi-turn reinforcement learning.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-VL with visual-agent and 3D grounding abilities
In September 2025 Alibaba released Qwen3-VL, a vision-language model family under Apache 2.0 whose flagship handles hours-long video, operates PC and mobile interfaces and does 3D grounding.
Zhipu releases the GLM-4.5V vision-language model
GLM-4.5V is a vision-language model released by Zhipu on 11 August 2025, built on GLM-4.5-Air and published under the MIT License; Zhipu reported state-of-the-art results among similarly sized models on 42 vision-language benchmarks.
Cohere releases Command A Vision
On 31 July 2025 Cohere released Command A Vision, a 112-billion-parameter vision-language model built on Command A. Its open weights were posted under a non-commercial licence.
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.