OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents
The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products. The pitch is “build once, run anywhere”. Today, every agent tool expects […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 8 August 2026
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