A year after MCP's public launch, AnthropicAn AI safety company — creators of the Claude family of language models. moved governance to the AAIF with co-founders Block and OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. and backing from Google, MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen., and AWSAmazon Web Services — the dominant cloud platform for compute, storage, and managed infrastructure.. The donation cemented MCP as the default wire format connecting LLMs to databases, IDEs, and SaaSSoftware as a Service — applications delivered over the internet on a subscription basis. — used by Cursor, CopilotAn AI coding assistant — suggests completions and edits inside the editor as you type., Claude, and ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users..

MCP's Linux Foundation donation turned AnthropicAn AI safety company — creators of the Claude family of language models.'s experiment into industry infrastructure.

Vendor-neutral governance let enterprises adopt agent tooling without single-vendor lock-in.