• Lablup contributes AI infrastructure and workload orchestration expertise to the Linux Foundation's open-standards body for agentic AI.

Lablup Inc., the company behind the AI infrastructure platform Backend.AI, today announced that it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member.

AAIF was co-founded in December 2025 by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI under the Linux Foundation. The foundation develops and maintains open standards and protocols so that AI agents can interoperate across platforms and vendors. Its inaugural projects include Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md. As of April 2026, the foundation counts more than 170 member organizations, among them AWS, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare.

"Lablup's roots are in open source," said Jeongkyu Shin, CEO of Lablup Inc. "We want agentic AI to develop on top of open standards rather than inside closed ecosystems, and we plan to contribute infrastructure technology alongside the AAIF community to help make that happen."

Through its membership, Lablup plans to adopt the MCP standard, contribute agent infrastructure technology, and help grow an open agent ecosystem in South Korea. The company brings operational expertise built over years of orchestrating heterogeneous GPU and NPU clusters for enterprises, financial institutions, and research organizations of varying scale. Lablup expects to collaborate with the AAIF community specifically at the infrastructure layer of agentic AI workloads, building on that experience.

Lablup has been a Silver Member of both CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and the Linux Foundation since 2020, became a sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in 2026, and now adds AAIF to its growing list of open-source foundation commitments.

About Lablup Inc.

Lablup Inc., founded in 2015, builds Backend.AI, a software-defined AI infrastructure platform that orchestrates heterogeneous GPU and NPU clusters at hyperscale with secure multi-tenancy and multi-node workload management. Its container-level GPU virtualization technology further maximizes accelerator utilization across training, inference, and deployment. Headquartered in Seoul with a U.S. subsidiary in San Jose, Lablup manages over 16,000 GPUs across 110+ sites worldwide, and Backend.AI is validated as NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software. Learn more at lablup.com.

About the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a Linux Foundation project established to advance open, interoperable agentic AI technology. Centered on its inaugural projects, MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md, the foundation stewards the core standards and protocols that enable AI agents to interoperate across platforms. Learn more at aaif.io.

Media Contact

Wooyoung Yoo, DevRel, Lablup Inc.

Email: wyyoo@lablup.com

Website: https://www.lablup.com