Armstrong: Coinbase contributed x402 to Linux Foundation with Google and AWS
“We're seeing a lot of agentic payment now flow over these new protocols, like x-for-o-two, which is one that we incubated at Coinbase that we actually put into the Linux foundation. So Google and Cloudflare and AWS, a bunch of people are working with us on tha…”
Saint-Marc: Cisco created Linux Foundation project Agency with Google, Oracle, Dell
“To back all this effort, we've actually created an open source project called Agency. And this, you know, became a Linux Foundation project with the backing of a few large formative members. Google, Oracle Red Hat were with us and Dell as well.”
Anthropic previews Mythos model to around 50 critical infrastructure organizations
“The company is making a preview model of its new AI model called Mythos, available to about 50 companies and organizations that maintain critical infrastructure, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and the Linux Foundation.”
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing to help critical infrastructure maintainers fix vulnerabilities
“Yeah, so Project Glasswing is a project that is attempting to give the people and the companies that provide much of our software infrastructure sort of the very foundation. The Linux Foundation is an example that is pretty close to my heart as a member of the…”
Anthropic remains fully committed to MCP following its foundation donation
“Like the commitment of Anthropic is the same, right? I'm still, We still have the same people I'm helping with the SDKs. We're still super committed in our products to MCP. I'm still the lead core maintainer. Nothing has actually changed.”
AAIF launch saw more 24-hour inbound interest than any Linux Foundation project
“And 50 companies on day one, you know, a huge set of folks in line to participate and join my email inbox. I'm sure your guys are too, is like full in 24 hours. How do I participate? We want to contribute. How do I get in there? I've never seen that kind of in…”
Vendor committee roadmaps typically fail in open-source foundations without technical curation
“It's more of a, not just more, but essentially a technical effort, not something where a committee of, you know, folks from vendors get together and say, well, my product should be in this roadmap, and that guy's product should be in this roadmap. It tends to …”
Technical participation in AAIF does not require formal foundation membership
“You don't need to become a member to participate on the technical side.”
Linux Foundation avoided frontier LLMs due to multibillion-dollar compute and data costs
“The Linux Foundation kind of took a pass on a, like, frontier model world, because in the open source space, having connection to an internet, the internet, And some intelligence and a computer. That's sort of entry. In the world of frontier LLMs, it's a compu…”
Linux Foundation separates technical governance from corporate funding to prevent pay-to-play
“And remember, we separate technical governance from
The governance of actually how money gets spent, because we don't want this sort of pay to play aspect of technology that tends to screw everything up.”
RWKV Creator Intends to Build the AI Equivalent of Linux Foundation
“He seems to be heavily inspired and wants to go towards the direction of creating the equivalent of a Linux foundation for AI models. So he really wants this to be open source.”