{"id":338396,"date":"2025-12-10T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338396\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:38:09","slug":"big-tech-joins-forces-with-linux-foundation-to-standardize-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338396\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we\u2019re living in the era of AI agents, but most of what we\u2019ve been promised is still theoretical. As companies race to turn fantasy into reality, they\u2019ve developed a collection of tools to guide the development of generative AI. A cadre of major players in the AI race, including Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, has come together to promote interoperability with the <a href=\"https:\/\/aaif.io\/press\/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation-aaif-anchored-by-new-project-contributions-including-model-context-protocol-mcp-goose-and-agents-md\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly formed Agentic AI Foundation<\/a> (AAIF). This move elevates a handful of popular technologies and could make them a de facto standard for AI development going forward.<\/p>\n<p>The development path for agentic AI models is cloudy to say the least, but companies have invested so heavily in creating these systems that some tools have percolated to the surface. The AAIF, which is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation, has been launched to govern the development of three key AI technologies: Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, and AGENTS.md.<\/p>\n<p>MCP is probably the most well-known of the trio, having been open-sourced by Anthropic a year ago. The goal of MCP is to link AI agents to data sources in a standardized way\u2014Anthropic (and now the AAIF) is fond of calling MCP a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2025\/04\/mcp-the-new-usb-c-for-ai-thats-bringing-fierce-rivals-together\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USB-C port for AI<\/a>.\u201d Rather than creating custom integrations for every different database or cloud storage platform, MCP allows developers to quickly and easily connect to any MCP-compliant server.<\/p>\n<p>Since its release, MCP has been widely used across the AI industry. Google announced at I\/O 2025 that it was adding support for MCP in its dev tools, and many of its products have since added MCP servers to make data more accessible to agents. OpenAI also adopted MCP just a few months after it was released.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img width=\"640\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mcp-simple-diagram-640x250.png\" class=\"none medium\" alt=\"mcp simple diagram\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Expanding use of MCP might help users customize their AI experience. For instance, the new Pebble Index 01 ring uses a local LLM that can act on your voice notes, and it supports MCP for user customization.<\/p>\n<p>Local AI models <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/the-npu-in-your-phone-keeps-improving-why-isnt-that-making-ai-better\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have to make some sacrifices<\/a> compared to bigger cloud-based models, but MCP can fill in the functionality gaps. \u201cA lot of tasks on productivity and content are fully doable on the edge,\u201d Qualcomm head of AI products, Vinesh Sukumar, tells Ars. \u201cWith MCP, you have a handshake with multiple cloud service providers for any kind of complex task to be completed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we\u2019re living in the era of AI agents, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-338396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}