Agentic AI Foundation adds 43 members to reach 190

The Agentic AI Foundation has added 43 members, bringing total membership to 190 organisations.

The new intake includes four Gold Members, 27 Silver Members and 12 Associate Members across financial services, infrastructure, security, academia and the public sector.

The new Gold Members are F5, GoDaddy, Stripe and TRON. The Silver tier now includes Alice, Agen.co by Frontegg, Arkhai, Atlassian, Autonomous Security, Avaya, Concord, Contoro Robotics, Danal, Eigen Labs, Elgin White, Fastly, Lablup, Manufact, MintMCP, MOXFIVE, Natoma, NEXUS, Render, Savoir-faire Linux, Semiotic AI, Solvd, Stacklet, Teradata, Tigris Data, TrueFoundry and VeriSign.

Associate Members joining the foundation are Consumer Reports, Drexel University, NCUK, NSW Government, National Sun Yat-sen University, Pacific Northwest National Labouratory, Rust Foundation, Sandia National Labouratories, San Jose State University, The Pennsylvania State University, University of Washington and the U.S. Army.

The expansion reflects a broader push by companies and public institutions to shape technical standards for agentic AI, which focuses on software agents that can act with a degree of autonomy across digital systems.

The new organisations bring expertise in application delivery, payments, cybersecurity, robotics and cloud-native development. That mix suggests the standards effort is attracting interest not only from model developers and software groups, but also from sectors that must manage security, identity, transactions and infrastructure in live operating environments.

Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, said the sector had moved beyond experimentation.

"The conversation around agentic AI has fundamentally shifted," Gilbert said.

"No matter the industry, organizations building production systems are choosing to invest in open standards because they understand that fragmented, proprietary approaches don't scale. Across the board, there's a clear consensus: the future of agentic AI depends on open, interoperable protocols that everyone can build on and trust."

Broadening base

The latest intake gives the foundation a wider base in sectors where autonomous systems could have practical commercial uses. Stripe brings a payments background, while F5 adds network and application delivery expertise. GoDaddy offers a perspective on web identity and online business services, and TRON brings experience in blockchain-based financial infrastructure.

That mix matters because agentic AI systems are expected to rely on common ways to identify themselves, interact with software tools, exchange data and, in some cases, move money. Standards bodies are trying to avoid a fragmented market in which companies build closed systems that struggle to work together.

F5 tied its decision to join to the practical demands of deploying AI systems at scale.

"AI is quickly moving from experimentation to production, where performance, cost, security, and governance become critical. F5 is joining the Agentic AI Foundation because we believe open standards will be essential to how agentic AI systems are delivered, scaled, and trusted. As organizations build more distributed AI environments, efficient inference, intelligent routing, and secure model interactions will become foundational to production AI. We're excited to collaborate with the AAIF community to help advance open, interoperable approaches that support the next generation of AI applications," said John Maddison, Chief Marketing Officer at F5.

GoDaddy framed its involvement around web identity, arguing that software agents will need verifiable credentials tied to real organisations if they are to operate safely online.

"AI agents are participating on the open web alongside people and bots. For this to scale securely, agents must be discoverable via a verifiable identity tied to a real organization. That's a problem solved decades ago for human interaction with websites. GoDaddy joined the Agentic AI Foundation to help extend those open standards to the agent ecosystem," said Jared Sine, Chief Strategy and Legal Officer at GoDaddy.

Public sector interest

The arrival of government and research institutions is also notable. New Associate Members include NSW Government, Pacific Northwest National Labouratory, Sandia National Labouratories and the U.S. Army, alongside several universities and non-profit organisations.

That spread indicates that work on agentic AI standards is no longer confined to commercial software groups. Public bodies are increasingly examining how autonomous systems could be deployed in administration, research and security-sensitive settings, where interoperability and governance rules are likely to carry particular weight.

TRON said its interest lies in connecting autonomous systems to digital financial infrastructure.

"Joining AAIF reflects TRON's commitment to advancing open standards that enable autonomous systems to operate globally. The future of agentic AI will depend on interoperable infrastructure that allows autonomous agents to coordinate, exchange value, and interact with digital financial systems at scale. With the AAIF, TRON looks forward to building and supporting frameworks that connect AI with decentralized financial infrastructure and enable continuous machine-driven economic activity powered by blockchain," said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON.