OpenAI's Sam Altman envisions a future where countless AI agents operate autonomously across the internet, managing tasks on behalf of users and interacting with each other to perform complex operations without human intervention. Realizing this vision necessitates a new internet protocol that supports the sophisticated communication required for AI systems. Google’s new Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol addresses this need by providing an open standard that enables autonomous AI agents to communicate across diverse systems. This post delves into the necessity of A2A, its current supporters, distinctions from Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the types of data it handles, and offers a straightforward example to illustrate its application.

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