For fair competition – Google hands over AI agent protocol to Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has launched the Agent-2-Agent (A2A) project on GitHub. The open source protocol initiated by Google networks AI agents with each other.
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- Manuel Masiero
The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, developed by Google together with many other industry partners and service providers such as Atlassian, PayPal, Accenture, and McKinsey and presented in April of this year, has found a new home at the Linux Foundation.
At its Open-Source Summit North America on 23 June, the non-profit organization announced the handover of the A2A protocol by Google. At the same time, the organization, together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow, launched the Agent2Agent project, which is hosted on GitHub.
A2A should remain independent in the long term
With the project, the Linux Foundation and its supporters want to ensure that the Agent2Agent protocol remains vendor-independent, creates fair competitive conditions and promotes innovation. The operators are also hoping for active participation from the community to further develop the project. According to the Linux Foundation, more than a hundred companies now support A2A, with AWS and Cisco being the most recent additions.
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The open-source A2A complements Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and allows AI agents to recognize each other, exchange information securely and collaborate independently of platform, provider, and framework. Google had already announced in April that it intended to launch a production-ready version of the A2A protocol on the market this year.
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