The fix for messy AI agent ecosystems might finally be here

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ZDNET key takeaways

• Major Agentic AI players are backing AAIF.
• Open source standards enable cross-LLM agents.
• AAIF currently uses MCP, Goose, and AGENTS, with more to come.

At Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). This new, open standards industry-backed consortium seems destined to be a game changer.

Open, interoperable, and governed

The AAIF's mission is to standardize and accelerate the emerging ecosystem of AI agents. Backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Block, and a who's who of major cloud and software vendors, the group aims to make "agentic AI" infrastructure open, interoperable, and governed by familiar open-source norms.

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