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Anthropic Donates Model Context Protocol to Linux Foundation, Co-founds Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the newly established Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. MCP has reached significant adoption milestones including 10,000+ active public servers, 97M+ monthly SDK downloads, and integration into ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Visual Studio Code. The AAIF will also house Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md as founding projects, aiming to foster open, vendor-neutral standards for agentic AI. MCP governance will remain community-driven with existing maintainers continuing their roles.