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Core Facts
Anthropic officially released the MCP specification in November 2024.
PyTorch was transferred to the independent PyTorch Foundation for governance in 2022, and the foundation is affiliated with the Linux Foundation.
MCP is now managed by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Anthropic donated the agent skills standard to a neutral organization under the Linux Foundation; more than 1 million agents have already been published under this standard, with nearly 280 million installs, and more than 70 platforms including ChatGPT and Cursor are using it.
Anthropic announced that it will donate the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation.
Foundations under the Linux Foundation (such as CNCF and the PyTorch Foundation) generally follow a tiered membership model: Platinum members have formal voting rights on technical direction, budget, and ecosystem promotion, while Gold and lower tiers mainly gain community visibility and opportunities to participate in working groups.
The PyTorch Foundation adopts the Linux Foundation's tiered membership system, typically divided into Platinum, Gold, Silver and other levels, with Platinum membership being the highest tier.
The PyTorch Foundation was founded by the Linux Foundation in September 2022.
The Linux Foundation hosts hundreds of critical open-source projects such as the Linux kernel, Kubernetes and Node.js.
A2A was announced by Google in April 2025, donated to the Linux Foundation as an independent project on June 23, 2025, and moved under the AAIF on August 18, 2026.
The Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) is an open standard initiated by Google in 2025 and donated to the Linux Foundation, designed to let AI agents built by different vendors discover, communicate with and collaborate with one another.
CAMARA is an open-source project jointly promoted by GSMA and the Linux Foundation, with the goal of defining a standardized, developer-friendly set of RESTful APIs for telecommunications network capabilities (such as location, QoS, slicing, number verification, etc.).
In December 2025, Anthropic formally transferred MCP to the Linux Foundation.
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Anthropic officially released the MCP specification in November 2024.
80%VerifiedPyTorch was transferred to the independent PyTorch Foundation for governance in 2022, and the foundation is affiliated with the Linux Foundation.
75%VerifiedMCP is now managed by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
65%VerifiedZephyr is an open-source real-time operating system under the Linux Foundation, designed specifically for resource-constrained embedded devices.
65%UnverifiedMLflow项目目前由Linux基金会托管
90%UnverifiedGoogle创建了A2A（Agent-to-Agent）协议并将其捐赠给Linux基金会
90%Unverified2019年，ONNX被移交给Linux基金会旗下的LF AI & Data基金会管理
85%UnverifiedACP（Agent Communication Protocol）是由IBM Research主导、Linux基金会托管的开放协议
80%UnverifiedLinux基金会的研究显示，顶级开源维护者平均每周花费超过30%的时间在Issue分类（triage）上
70%UnverifiedLinux基金会的研究显示全球关键开源基础设施中超过36%的代码由单一维护者负责
70%UnverifiedAccording to the Linux Foundation's 2023 report, approximately 90% of commercial software worldwide depends on open-source components.
60%UnverifiedThe PyTorch Foundation adopts the Linux Foundation's tiered membership system, typically divided into Platinum, Gold, Silver and other levels, with Platinum membership being the highest tier.
50%UnverifiedThe PyTorch Foundation was founded by the Linux Foundation in September 2022.
50%UnverifiedFoundations under the Linux Foundation (such as CNCF and the PyTorch Foundation) generally follow a tiered membership model: Platinum members have formal voting rights on technical direction, budget, and ecosystem promotion, while Gold and lower tiers mainly gain community visibility and opportunities to participate in working groups.
50%UnverifiedThe Linux Foundation hosts hundreds of critical open-source projects such as the Linux kernel, Kubernetes and Node.js.
50%UnverifiedThe Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) is an open standard initiated by Google in 2025 and donated to the Linux Foundation, designed to let AI agents built by different vendors discover, communicate with and collaborate with one another.
50%UnverifiedCAMARA is an open-source project jointly promoted by GSMA and the Linux Foundation, with the goal of defining a standardized, developer-friendly set of RESTful APIs for telecommunications network capabilities (such as location, QoS, slicing, number verification, etc.).
50%UnverifiedSigstore is an open-source project backed by the Linux Foundation, designed to provide a keyless signing mechanism for software packages based on OpenID Connect.
50%UnverifiedAccording to research by the Linux Foundation, more than 90% of open-source projects cease active maintenance within two years of being initiated.
50%UnverifiedThe PyTorch Foundation is affiliated with the Linux Foundation and is a community-driven open-source AI hub.
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