Agentic AI is advancing rapidly, with open-source projects racing to keep pace with real-world deployment. To accelerate progress, the Linux Foundation consolidated key technologies—Model Context Protocol (MCP), Goose, and AGENTS.md—under the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) in late 2025. At the MCP Dev Summit in New York City, Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin and newly appointed AAIF executive director Mazin Gilbert discussed this transition. Zemlin explained that leading both organizations was unsustainable, prompting a careful search for a leader with both technical expertise and collaborative leadership skills.
Gilbert now takes on the challenge of guiding AAIF as it shapes the emerging agentic AI ecosystem. While the foundation currently oversees three projects, its broader mission involves defining the future architecture of agent-driven systems—deciding what to build, when, and why. These decisions will influence the trajectory of open-source AI development. The conversation also highlights the importance of open collaboration, funding dynamics, and early adopters in shaping the agentic stack’s evolution.
Learn more from The New Stack around the latest in open-source projects and The Linux Foundation:
Anthropic Donates the MCP Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation
SAFE-MCP, a Community-Built Framework for AI Agent Security
Google Donates the Agent2Agent Protocol to the Linux Foundation
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This week on the podcast we’re running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the AI Summit in New York City. The theme of the conference, and the series, is AI in the Enterprise, and I think you’ll find it really interesting in that it includes a mix of both technical and case-study-oriented discussions. My guest this time around is Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology & architecture with AT&T. Mazin and I have a really interesting discussion on what’s really required to scale AI in the enterprise, and you’ll learn about a new open source project that AT&T is working on to allow any enterprise to do this. You already know by now that I geek out when it comes to talking about the intersection of machine learning and cloud computing, and this conversation is no exception. Be sure to let us know what you think by posting your comments or questions to the show notes page at twimlai.com/talk/78. For more info on this series, visit twimlai.com/aisummit
In this week's episode, Mazin Gilbert - VP of AT&T Labs Advanced Technology - joins us. The gang talks about the Amazon S3 outage as well as about an AI that's learned how to copy/paste code, just like a real developer! Finally, Joel provides tech support to Grandma Maebeline.
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