MCP joins the Agentic AI Foundation

Today marks a major milestone for the Model Context Protocol. Anthropic is donating MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. MCP will become a founding project of the newly created foundation. In one year, MCP has become one of the fastest-growing and widely-adopted open-source projects in AI: Over 97 million monthly SDK downloads, 10,000 active servers and first-class client support across major AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Visual Studio Code and many more. Since its inception, we’ve remained committed to ensuring M