On the Open Supply Summit North America, it was introduced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Basis.
The A2A protocol provides a typical approach for connecting brokers to one another. On this approach, it enhances Anthropic’s Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP), which supplies a approach to join brokers to totally different information sources and functions.
“Drawing on Google’s inner experience in scaling agentic programs, we designed the A2A protocol to handle the challenges we recognized in deploying large-scale, multi-agent programs for our prospects. A2A empowers builders to construct brokers able to connecting with every other agent constructed utilizing the protocol and provides customers the flexibleness to mix brokers from numerous suppliers,” Google wrote in a weblog put up when it first launched A2A in April.
When it was first introduced, Google revealed that there have been over 50 companions contributing to the venture, together with Atlassian, Cohere, Datadog, Deloitte, Elastic, Oracle, and Salesforce. In accordance with the Linux Basis, there are actually over 100 expertise companions concerned within the venture.
By becoming a member of a corporation just like the Linux Basis, the venture will profit from vendor neutrality and inclusive contributions. The group can even proceed the protocol’s deal with extensibility, safety, and real-world usability.
“The Agent2Agent protocol establishes a significant open commonplace for communication, enabling the trade to construct actually interoperable AI brokers throughout numerous platforms and programs,” mentioned Rao Surapaneni, vp and GM of Enterprise Purposes Platform at Google Cloud. “By collaborating with the Linux Basis and main expertise suppliers, we are going to allow extra progressive and beneficial AI capabilities underneath a trusted, open-governance framework.”