--- title: The AI Engineer Foundation: Open Source for the Future of AI description: The AI Engineer Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to open sourcing and standardizing AI advancements to enable interoperable, inclusive, and community-driven... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-engineer-foundation-open-source-for-the-future-of-ai-epqnijbb8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The AI Engineer Foundation: Open Source for the Future of AI | daily.dev og:description: The AI Engineer Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to open sourcing and standardizing AI advancements to enable interoperable, inclusive, and community-driven... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-engineer-foundation-open-source-for-the-future-of-ai-epqnijbb8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EPQnijBb8.png og:image:alt: The AI Engineer Foundation: Open Source for the Future of AI 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. # The AI Engineer Foundation: Open Source for the Future of AI **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The AI Engineer Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to open sourcing and standardizing AI advancements to enable interoperable, inclusive, and community-driven AI development. Their first project, the Agent Protocol, aims to create a common interface for interacting with AI agents. The foundation promotes vendor-neutral, open source strategies to avoid vendor-backed lock-in. They are also developing courses to train software engineers to become agent engineers. The foundation is looking for open source projects to join and is in the process of joining the Linux Foundation for support and access to other open source communities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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