The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A), a Google-created standard for AI agents to talk to one another, is moving to the Agentic AI Foundation, backers of the emerging standard told Axios. Open standards could make it easier to mix AI agents and tools from different providers without building custom connections between each one. Different companies build AI agents using different models, platforms and tools. Common protocols aim to spare businesses from having to custom-build the connections among them. Putting A2A alongside MCP and related projects could help push the industry toward more modular, model-agnostic AI systems — giving companies more flexibility to choose providers based on cost, performance, latency or other needs. The move puts A2A in the same home as Model Context Protocol (MCP), which handles connections between AI applications and tools and data while A2A handles communication between independent agents.

Full report : Google’s A2A Agentic Protocol could reduce the work to connect agents built on different platforms and frameworks.