The Linux Foundation has been growing at a steady pace, expanding its portfolio of projects and attracting an increasing number of organizations to collaborate on open source initiatives.
Among those, the influx of Big Tech companies stands out; industry giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are increasingly contributing their technologies, protocols, and resources to open source projects.
While not everyone may like this, the growing collaboration points toward an interesting future for the open source ecosystem. Anyhow, let’s move on to the topic at hand.
What's Happening: Back in April 2025, Google launched the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard designed to enable secure and intelligent communication between autonomous AI agents.
Months later, Google has now donated A2A to the Linux Foundation, which in turn has formed the Agent2Agent project in collaboration with AWS, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow.
Announcing the move, Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, added that:
We are happy to be the new home of the Agent2Agent Protocol project. By joining the Linux Foundation, A2A is ensuring the long-term neutrality, collaboration and governance that will unlock the next era of agent-to-agent powered productivity.
What to Expect: If you didn't know, the A2A protocol enables autonomous AI agents to communicate securely, discover each other’s capabilities, and collaborate across organizational and technological boundaries.
It lays the groundwork for building dynamic, multi-agent systems that can work together securely and effectively, regardless of who built them, how they're deployed, or where they operate.
With this transition, the protocol is set to operate under a vendor-neutral governance model, ensuring that no single company controls it. The Linux Foundation will oversee the project with a focus on maintaining A2A’s core principles: extensibility, security, and practical usability across real-world industries.
For more details, you can read the official press release.
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