Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic donates MCP to Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation.
- Co-founders: Anthropic, Block, OpenAI; backed by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, Bloomberg.
MCP: 10,000+ active public servers in first year of existence.
- Adopted by ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, VS Code.
97M+ monthly SDK downloads across Python and TypeScript SDKs.
Tool Search + Programmatic Tool Calling added; official server Registry launched.
Foundation operates as directed fund under Linux Foundation — vendor-neutral.
Governance unchanged; maintainers maintain community input + decision transparency.