Agentic AI Foundation

What Agentic AI Foundation does

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a nonprofit foundation established on December 9, 2025, as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. AAIF provides neutral, vendor-independent governance for open standards and open-source projects in agentic AI, with founding project contributions including the Model Context Protocol (MCP) donated by Anthropic, the goose AI agent framework donated by Block, and the AGENTS.md specification donated by OpenAI. Subsequent additions include agentgateway (donated by Solo.io in June 2026) and tools like MCP Apps, MCP Debugger, and MCP Checker. The foundation grew from 8 Platinum founding members to 190+ member organizations across Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate tiers within five months, spanning enterprise technology (AWS, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Bloomberg), AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI), financial services (JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Circle, Stripe, TRON), government (U.S. Army, NSW Government), and other sectors. Operations are supported by an Executive Director (Mazin Gilbert, ex-Google/AT&T), CTO (Manik Surtani from Block), Governing Board chaired by David Nalley (AWS), a Technical Committee with representation from all eight Platinum members, seven working groups, and a 138-ambassador global program.

AAIF does not sell software products; its portfolio is freely available via GitHub and standard open-source channels. The foundation's business model is tiered membership dues paid by organizations that want to participate in standards development, governance, and working groups, with Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate tiers. Go-to-market is community-led, relying on developer relations through Discord, blog content, GitHub workflows, and global events including MCP Dev Summits (1,200+ attendees in NYC 2026) and AGNTCon + MCPCon (Amsterdam and San Jose in 2026). The foundation has achieved significant ecosystem traction: MCP integrates with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Snowflake, and Google Cloud databases; supports 10,000+ active public MCP servers and 97M+ monthly SDK downloads; and has been deployed at scale by Uber (60,000+ agent executions weekly with 5,000+ engineers) and Duolingo (250 weekly active users across 30% of the company via 180+ MCP tools).

Name

Agentic AI Foundation

Legal name

Agentic AI Foundation

Website

https://aaif.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Nonprofit foundation under the Linux Foundation providing neutral governance for open standards and open-source projects in agentic AI, including MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, and agentgateway, funded through tiered membership from 190+ enterprise organizations worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open Source AI Standards

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• Open source foundation
• AI interoperability standards
• Agentic AI governance
• Protocol development
• Open source AI agents

Headquarters

HQ city

South San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: The foundation is funded through tiered membership dues from organizations (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Associate tiers). Organizations join to participate in standards development, working groups, and governance of open-source agentic AI projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a nonprofit directed fund under The Linux Foundation that provides neutral governance and stewardship for open-source projects and standards for agentic AI. It hosts and develops foundational projects including the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the goose AI agent framework, the AGENTS.md specification, and the agentgateway unified gateway, enabling AI agents to interoperate with tools, data, and applications across platforms.

Product overview

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a nonprofit foundation under the Linux Foundation that provides neutral, open governance for developing open standards and open source projects for agentic AI systems. Rather than a single unified product, AAIF hosts a portfolio of foundational open source projects: Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting AI applications to external tools and data; goose for extensible AI agent execution; AGENTS.md for agent-readable project instructions; and agentgateway for unified MCP/LLM traffic management. Additionally, MCP Apps extends MCP with interactive UI capabilities. AAIF also organizes developer events (MCP Dev Summit, AGNTCon + MCPCon), runs an Ambassador Program, and hosts an Annual Technical Excellence Awards. The foundation grew to 190+ member organizations in under six months since its December 2025 launch, with founding contributions from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, and platinum members including AWS, Google, Microsoft, and others.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) An open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources, tools, and applications. It is the foundational standard for agentic AI interoperability with over 97 million monthly SDK downloads.
• goose An open source, extensible AI agent framework that goes beyond code suggestions, allowing users to install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM. Includes Code Mode for task execution.
• AGENTS.md A dedicated, predictable place to provide context and instructions to help AI coding agents work on projects, enabling projects to define agent-readable instructions for build commands and architectural conventions.
• agentgateway Unified open-source gateway for agentic AI, MCP, and services that enables governance, security, and observability of AI agent traffic through multiplexing, centralized authentication, and policy enforcement.
• MCP Apps The first official Model Context Protocol extension enabling interactive UI capabilities including dashboards, forms, and visualizations within MCP clients. Supported by Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
• MCP Debugger An open source debugging tool that interacts with MCP servers the way real clients would, attempting connection and authorization flows, discovering tools, and producing reports on implementation deviations.
• MCP Checker An open source evaluation framework built by Red Hat for testing whether models correctly use MCP server semantics, providing structured evaluation results for CI integration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 170 organizations joined within first 4 months, more than double CNCF membership at same stage
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration18 records

AI capability11 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

39 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• NexaScienceminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Silver member and second Japanese entity/first domestic Japanese startup in AAIF. Contributes to MCP working groups and frameworks for safe, responsible AI deployment.
• F5coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Gold member joining AAIF in May 2026 as part of 43 new members across Gold, Silver, and Associate tiers. Represents application delivery sector.
• GoDaddycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Gold member joining AAIF in May 2026. Represents domain registration sector in the foundation's expanding ecosystem.
• StripecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Gold member contributing to agentic commerce standards. Stripe's Manik Surtani serves as AAIF CTO. Stripe contributes to machine payments and MCP standards.
• SolvdminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Silver member and AI engineering company joining among 43 new additions. Contributes to AAIF working groups focused on MCP implementation and open-source agent tooling, bringing experience from over 100 enterprise clients.
• MOXFIVEminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Silver member and cyber incident response firm. Contributes frontline experience from thousands of breach investigations to shape how agentic AI infrastructure is designed for resilience and defense against real-world attack conditions.
• Liquid ReplyminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 May 2026Strategic Technology Advisor Max Korbacker, CEO of Liquid Reply, serves as CNCF Governing Board Member and contributes to agentic AI infrastructure discussions on Kubernetes.
• StackletminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026Silver member, creator of CNCF's Cloud Custodian project. Contributes expertise in governing cloud infrastructure at scale (500M+ downloads) and advances agentic AI through Jun0 platform and MCP Server for AI-native cloud infrastructure.
• CoinbasecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 April 2026Founding member of x402 Foundation for universal payments alongside Stripe, Cloudflare, and AWS. Coinbase launched 'Coinbase for Agents' enabling AI assistants to execute cryptocurrency trades.
• x402 FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 April 2026Foundation for universal payments established by Linux Foundation with founding members Coinbase, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Amazon Web Services.
• TRONcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 March 2026Gold member with seat on governing board. TRON contributes to AI agent payments and machine-to-machine economic activities through its fast, inexpensive network. Justin Sun stated AI-agent use cases involve small, frequent transactions suitable for Tron.
• HuaweicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member joining February 2026, one of first Chinese companies to formally join alongside OpenAI, Google, Anthropic. Participation seen as strategic to gain influence in shaping interoperability norms similar to Huawei's approach in 4G/5G standards-setting.
• UiPathcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member joining February 2026. UiPath collaborates on open standards and open-source innovations for agentic AI, contributing to governance, regulatory alignment, security, and observability working groups.
• JPMorgan ChasecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member applying agents to fraud detection, trading, and risk assessment. Represents financial services sector on governing board alongside Circle and TRON.
• American ExpresscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member applying agents to financial services including fraud detection and risk assessment.
• AkamaicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing to agentic AI infrastructure with expertise in edge computing and network optimization.
• Red HatcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing open-source expertise. Red Hat engineers Wesley Chun and Calum Murray developed MCP Checker evaluation framework.
• ServiceNowcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing to agentic AI automation and enterprise workflow integration.
• EquinixcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing data center and digital infrastructure expertise to agentic AI standards.
• AutodeskcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing to design and manufacturing agentic AI applications.
• JetBrainscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member. Katherine Druckman, Head of Community and Partnership Engagement at JetBrains, serves as AAIF Ambassador and writes about open collaboration in agentic AI.
• WorkatocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing to workflow automation and enterprise integration for agentic AI.
• DiagridcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member. Yaron Schneider, Co-Founder of Diagrid, chairs the Workflow Working Group at AAIF.
• LenovocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing hardware and digital infrastructure perspective to agentic AI standards.
• HitachicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing industrial and enterprise technology expertise to agentic AI.
• InfobipcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing communications platform expertise to agentic AI.
• TELUScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Gold member contributing telecommunications perspective to agentic AI standards.
• U.S. ArmycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Associate member representing government sector in AAIF, participating in standards development for agentic AI.
• NSW GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026Associate member. Australian state government participating in open agent standards development.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member of AAIF. AWS Director of Developer Experience David Nalley serves as Governing Board Chair. AWS contributes to MCP specification development and hosts MCP infrastructure including servers for AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore.
• AnthropicflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member and co-founder of AAIF. Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the foundation. David Soria Parra, MCP co-creator, leads MCP technical direction. MCP achieved 97M+ monthly SDK downloads.
• Block, Inc.flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member and co-founder of AAIF. Block donated the goose AI agent framework to the foundation. Alex Hancock of Block serves as core goose maintainer.
• Bloomberg L.P.flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member contributing to AAIF governance and MCP standards development. Manik Surtani from Block (formerly) serves as AAIF CTO and represents financial services perspective.
• CloudflareflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member supporting AAIF infrastructure development and agentic AI standards.
• Google LLCflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member contributing to MCP and agentic AI interoperability standards. Google Cloud maintains MCP servers for databases including AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore.
• Microsoft CorporationflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member contributing to MCP specification and agentic AI standards. Microsoft Copilot integrates MCP for tool access.
• OpenAI IncflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Platinum founding member and co-founder of AAIF. OpenAI donated AGENTS.md specification and contributed to MCP adoption. Nick Cooper of OpenAI participates in MCP maintainer roundtable.
• COOCONminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025Silver member (June 1, 2025). South Korean business data platform company listed on KOSDAQ. Contributes to AI agent payments and MCP-based data business working groups, leveraging collaboration to accelerate global expansion and Singapore subsidiary establishment.
• CirclecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 February 2025Gold member and governing board participant. Circle positions USDC stablecoin as foundational financial layer for emerging agentic economy where AI agents autonomously transact on behalf of users.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): CNCF is the closest comparable Linux Foundation sub-foundation, providing neutral governance for Kubernetes and related cloud-native open-source projects. AAIF explicitly benchmarks itself against CNCF's early membership trajectory (170 AAIF members in 4 months vs CNCF's lower count at the same stage), and both foundations pursue a similar 'standards-body for emerging technology categories' model with tiered corporate membership.
• Apache Software Foundation: Apache Software Foundation is the largest independent open-source foundation providing neutral governance for hundreds of projects via the Apache Incubator and TLP model. AAIF follows a similar independent-governance pattern and competes for the same corporate open-source sponsorship dollars.
• LF Energy: LF Energy is a Linux Foundation sub-foundation stewarding open-source projects for the energy sector, following an identical directed-fund model under LF with tiered corporate membership. It demonstrates the broader LF sub-foundation pattern that AAIF is part of.
• Eclipse Foundation: Eclipse Foundation provides neutral governance for working groups and open-source projects across AI, IoT, and enterprise software. It hosts the Eclipse AI Working Group and competes directly with AAIF for corporate AI-standards sponsorship, with overlapping members like Huawei and Bosch.
• LF AI & Data: LF AI & Data is the Linux Foundation's umbrella AI and data initiative, hosting multiple projects across the AI/ML stack. It overlaps directly with AAIF's AI governance and standards role and represents the broader parent initiative against which AAIF could either carve out distinct scope or potentially be folded.
• MLCommons: MLCommons is an open engineering consortium focused on AI benchmarks, datasets, and best practices, with comparable membership from major AI labs and cloud providers. It complements AAIF's standards role with measurable evaluation frameworks and shares member organizations like Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
• PyTorch Foundation: PyTorch Foundation is a Linux Foundation sub-foundation that stewards PyTorch and adjacent AI/ML open-source projects under neutral governance. It mirrors AAIF's mission of providing vendor-independent home for foundational AI infrastructure, with similar corporate membership structures and Platinum-tier members.
• OpenJS Foundation: OpenJS Foundation is a Linux Foundation sub-foundation stewarding JavaScript and Node.js ecosystem projects under neutral governance. Like AAIF, it operates with Platinum-tier corporate members and pursues a 'developer ecosystem governance' mission.

Emerging players

• x402 Foundation: x402 Foundation was co-established in April 2026 by Coinbase, Stripe, Cloudflare, and AWS under the Linux Foundation for universal agent payments. It is a sister foundation to AAIF and shares the same governance approach, but focused narrowly on the agentic commerce working group's payment-rails extension.

Broad incumbents

• OASIS Open: OASIS Open is a long-standing standards development organization hosting cross-industry standards efforts (e.g., SAML, AMQP). It represents the broader, more mature 'standards-body' category that AAIF sits within, though OASIS focuses on formal standardization rather than open-source project stewardship.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AgenticAIFdn
• GitHubgithub.com/aaif
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@AgenticAI-Foundation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agentic-ai-foundation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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