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title: "The Biggest News in AI Since MCP"
description: "The Linux Foundation launches the Agentic AI Foundation, which formalizes MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md into global open standards."
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type: article
published: 2025-12-12
author: "Neil Chaudhuri"
tags: ["AI", "Software Engineering", "Programming"]
image: https://www.vidyasource.com/img/blog/aaif.webp
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# The Biggest News in AI Since MCP

> The Linux Foundation launches the Agentic AI Foundation, which formalizes MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md into global open standards.

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- Published: 2025-12-12
- Author: Neil Chaudhuri
- Topics: AI, Software Engineering, Programming

When I spoke at the [MCP Roundtable](https://www.vidyasource.com/blog/vidya-talks-ai-and-mcp/), one of the points I made is that MCP wouldn't really hit until it "grew up" by becoming
a real standard. HTTP, HTML, JSON, and other standards changed the world only because of the W3C, a global consortium transcending vendors and corporate strategies with a grand vision for the web.

That, and more, has now happened.

## The News

The Linux Foundation has [announced](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF),
a neutral, open-governance initiative designed to accelerate the evolution of Agentic AI.

AAIF unites some of the leading industry players with the leading open technologies—MCP from Anthropic, Goose (which I also discussed at the MCP Roundtable and use regularly) from Block, and AGENTS.md from OpenAI—into a unifying vision for agents.

Why does this matter?

- AAIF establishes shared, vendor-neutral standards for building and coordinating AI agents.
- AAIF breaks down proprietary silos to enable interoperability across tools, platforms, and organizations.
- AAIF shifts Agentic AI from fragmented experiments to a more unified, production-ready ecosystem.

This is exciting. It's wonderful finally to see global, open standards for building AI agents.

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