On the Open Supply Summit North America, it was introduced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Basis.
The A2A protocol affords a normal means for connecting brokers to one another. On this means, it enhances Anthropic’s Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP), which gives a solution to join brokers to totally different information sources and functions.
“Drawing on Google’s inside experience in scaling agentic techniques, we designed the A2A protocol to deal with the challenges we recognized in deploying large-scale, multi-agent techniques for our prospects. A2A empowers builders to construct brokers able to connecting with every other agent constructed utilizing the protocol and affords customers the pliability to mix brokers from varied suppliers,” Google wrote in a weblog publish when it first launched A2A in April.
When it was first introduced, Google revealed that there have been over 50 companions contributing to the mission, together with Atlassian, Cohere, Datadog, Deloitte, Elastic, Oracle, and Salesforce. In response to the Linux Basis, there at the moment are over 100 expertise companions concerned within the mission.
By becoming a member of a company just like the Linux Basis, the mission will profit from vendor neutrality and inclusive contributions. The group may also proceed the protocol’s give attention to extensibility, safety, and real-world usability.
“The Agent2Agent protocol establishes an important open normal for communication, enabling the trade to construct really interoperable AI brokers throughout numerous platforms and techniques,” mentioned Rao Surapaneni, vice chairman and GM of Enterprise Purposes Platform at Google Cloud. “By collaborating with the Linux Basis and main expertise suppliers, we’ll allow extra modern and beneficial AI capabilities below a trusted, open-governance framework.”
