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Linux Foundation adopts A2A protocol to help solve one of AI's most pressing challenges


Let the best agent-to-agent protocol win.

In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the conference that the A2A protocol has evolved to make it easier to add custom extensions to the core specification. The A2A protocol is designed to solve one of AI's most pressing challenges: enabling autonomous agents -- software entities capable of independent action and decision-making -- to discover each other, securely exchange information, and collaborate across disparate platforms, vendors, and frameworks. In an interview, Antje Barth, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) principal developer advocate for generative AI, explained, "Say you want to book a train ride to Copenhagen, then a hotel there, and look maybe for a fancy restaurant, right?

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