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AI agents may soon search for and use their own tools at runtime, thanks to a new open standard backed by Microsoft and Google.
I'm always a bit nervous when a (oh, heck, I'm gonna say it) cabal of giant corporations that are normally fierce rivals starts working together on a project.
This time, Google, Microsoft, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub, and Cisco are all announcing a new standard called Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open specification for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. Google and Microsoft both have blog posts announcing the partnership.