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Apollo GraphQL Joins Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Open Standards for Agent-to-API Integration
Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, today announced it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). As a Silver member of the Linux Foundation-hosted AAIF, Apollo strengthens the coalition stewarding Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI applications to tools, data, and applications.
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