OpenAI just opened up
OpenAI breaks up with vendor lock-in
OpenAI on Thursday announced that it is donating the Open Responses API specification to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), an open source initiative under the Linux Foundation. Three other projects are also joining the AAIF: OpenSandbox, Anthropic’s Agent Skills, and Hugging Face’s OpenEnv, a framework for AI agent environments.
They join existing AAIF projects, including the MCP and A2A protocols, OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, the open source AI agent goose, agentgateway, and Agent Router. The foundation launched in December 2025 with MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md as its first three projects.
As for Open Responses, the core idea here is to provide developers with a set of core API calls that should work across LLM providers.
Go deeper:OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation
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