--- title: Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI join forces to help create... description: The Appia Foundation, a new Linux Foundation entity with 13 founding members including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, has launched to address the lack of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-microsoft-and-openai-join-forces-to-help-create-ai-s-missing-trust-layer-vwrplutpt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI join forces to help create AI’s missing trust layer | daily.dev og:description: The Appia Foundation, a new Linux Foundation entity with 13 founding members including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, has launched to address the lack of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-microsoft-and-openai-join-forces-to-help-create-ai-s-missing-trust-layer-vwrplutpt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VWRPLuTPt.png og:image:alt: Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI join forces to help create AI’s missing trust layer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI join forces to help create AI’s missing trust layer **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Appia Foundation, a new Linux Foundation entity with 13 founding members including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, has launched to address the lack of standardized AI trust verification. It will develop open, modular 'conformity specifications' that translate international AI standards (like ISO/IEC) into concrete, assessable criteria — functioning as an inspector's checklist for AI systems. A key design feature is 'evidence pass-through,' allowing conformity evidence from one layer of the AI supply chain to carry forward to the next, so each party only demonstrates what relates to its own role. The foundation distinguishes between conformity (technical verification) and compliance (legal status), producing the former to help regulators, customers, and courts determine accountability. Initial working groups are focused on architecture, policy, and mapping specs to obligations including the EU AI Act. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Appia Foundation and what does it do? The Appia Foundation is a newly announced Linux Foundation entity, operating under the Joint Development Foundation, that develops open, modular 'conformity specifications' translating international AI standards like ISO/IEC 42001 into concrete, assessable criteria. It has 13 founding members including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Siemens, Mastercard, and Nemko, focused on making AI trust and safety claims independently verifiable rather than self-declared. _Teams navigating AI compliance frameworks can follow standards efforts like Appia's on daily.dev._ ### What is the difference between AI conformity and AI compliance? Conformity is a technical result showing a system meets defined criteria, while compliance is the legal status of having met a regulatory obligation. The Appia Foundation produces conformity specifications and criteria; determining whether that conformity satisfies actual legal compliance is left to the relevant regulator or jurisdiction, not the foundation itself. _Developers building AI compliance tooling can track this distinction as it evolves via daily.dev._ ### How does evidence pass-through work in AI supply chain compliance? Evidence pass-through, as designed by the Appia Foundation, lets conformity evidence produced at one layer of the AI supply chain carry forward to the next layer instead of being re-verified. For example, a company deploying a third-party model would not need to re-establish what the model's developer already demonstrated, only show conformity for its own configuration and use. _Anyone integrating third-party AI models can follow how supply-chain trust standards take shape on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security](https://daily.dev/posts/advanced-ai-society-joins-the-linux-foundation-launches-open-verification-ecosystem-as-congress-mov-md5pdi8mg) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Open Secure AI Alliance Joins the Linux Foundation to Build a Shared, Open Defense Stack for the AI Era](https://daily.dev/posts/open-secure-ai-alliance-joins-the-linux-foundation-to-build-a-shared-open-defense-stack-for-the-ai--px9biiaf6) · Linux Foundation · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [A New Approach to Open Source AI: A Framework for Openness](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-approach-to-open-source-ai-a-framework-for-openness-hmdkcs4tr) · Mozilla · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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