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Manik Surtani of the Agentic AI Foundation
Manik Surtani (CTO and co-founder, Agentic AI Foundation) on Udienza: Who should own the agentic AI stack your teams build on?
By 
Luca Berton
Who Manik Surtani is
Manik Surtani is CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation home of MCP, goose, AGENTS.md and A2A. Before that he was head of open source at Block, where goose began.
The conversation
The conversation, How goose led to the AAIF, was recorded at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, Amsterdam. It starts from one question: Who should own the agentic AI stack your teams build on?
From the conversation
People need to own their own AI destinies, and this is where open source has a huge role to play.
— Manik Surtani
The Agentic AI Foundation
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is the Linux Foundation’s home for the open building blocks of agentic AI: MCP, goose, AGENTS.md and A2A. Everyone the show has interviewed there is listed on Agentic AI Foundation on Udienza.
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