The establishment of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a dedicated fund under the auspices of the Linux Foundation , was jointly announced by several leading companies in the field of technology and artificial intelligence. With the establishment of the AAIF, Anthropic announced the donation of the MCP protocol to the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to promoting sustainable open source ecosystems through neutral governance, community development, and shared infrastructure. The AAIF will operate as a restricted fund within the Linux Foundation. Members since its founding include Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block, with additional support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, and Bloomberg.