By Will Knight
Publication Date: 2025-12-09 17:06:00
OpenAIAnthropic and Block have launched a new open source organization – the Agentic AI Foundation – to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents.
The three companies also give the foundation ownership of some widely used agent technologies. These include Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which allows agents to connect and interact; OpenAI’s Agents.md, which allows programs and websites to set rules for encoding agents; and Goose, a construction agent framework developed by Block. The use of these technologies was already free, but the new foundation will allow others to contribute to their development.
“MCP is used by a lot of companies, but there are others (that don’t use it),” says Nick Cooper, who leads work on the protocol at OpenAI. Cooper says creating an open standard for MCP should encourage developers and companies to adopt it and develop systems that integrate agentic AI. “This open interoperability – this…
