The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with founding contributions from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block, marking a strategic industry response to prevent AI agent ecosystem fragmentation through neutral, open standards.

The initiative addresses a critical infrastructure bottleneck: as AI systems evolve beyond chatbots toward autonomous agents capable of coordinating complex tasks, the technology landscape faces the risk of splintering into incompatible, proprietary stacks that would lock organizations into single-vendor dependencies.