OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Agree to Develop Agent Standards Together

For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.

Some leading companies are preparing to do just that. As soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and a slate of other tech companies are set to announce a new group: the Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation, which will work together on open-source standards involving AI agents, according to a person involved in the project.