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🚨 BREAKING: Google just launched a new internet protocol.
It’s A2A.
Backed by 50+ partners including Salesforce, Atlassian, and SAP.
It’s designed to let AI agents collaborate across companies, platforms, and clouds.
Here’s what it means for the future of enterprise AI: 🧵
It’s A2A.
Backed by 50+ partners including Salesforce, Atlassian, and SAP.
It’s designed to let AI agents collaborate across companies, platforms, and clouds.
Here’s what it means for the future of enterprise AI: 🧵
AI agents are everywhere.
But they don’t speak the same language.
A2A changes that. It’s an open protocol that lets AI agents interoperate across vendors, systems, and tools.
Built with 50+ enterprise partners.
It’s the missing layer for scalable agent ecosystems.
But they don’t speak the same language.
A2A changes that. It’s an open protocol that lets AI agents interoperate across vendors, systems, and tools.
Built with 50+ enterprise partners.
It’s the missing layer for scalable agent ecosystems.
Let’s break down what A2A actually does:
• Standardizes how agents talk to each other
• Enables real-time collaboration across orgs, clouds, and vendors
• Supports memoryless agents, multimodal UIs, and long-running workflows
Think “API for AI agents."
• Standardizes how agents talk to each other
• Enables real-time collaboration across orgs, clouds, and vendors
• Supports memoryless agents, multimodal UIs, and long-running workflows
Think “API for AI agents."
Most protocols optimize for data.
A2A optimizes for behavior.
It introduces key primitives for agent communication:
→ Agent Cards (capability discovery)
→ Tasks and Artifacts (goal-driven execution)
→ UX negotiation (interface-aware outputs)
It’s deeply human-centric.
A2A optimizes for behavior.
It introduces key primitives for agent communication:
→ Agent Cards (capability discovery)
→ Tasks and Artifacts (goal-driven execution)
→ UX negotiation (interface-aware outputs)
It’s deeply human-centric.
The design is genius in its simplicity:
• Uses JSON-RPC over HTTP
• Secure by default
• Supports async, real-time, and long-form work
• Modality agnostic: text, video, audio
This means: plug in your agent stack with almost no friction.
• Uses JSON-RPC over HTTP
• Secure by default
• Supports async, real-time, and long-form work
• Modality agnostic: text, video, audio
This means: plug in your agent stack with almost no friction.
What happens when agents collaborate?
→ A recruiter agent books interviews via a scheduling agent
→ A compliance agent runs background checks via a third-party agent
→ All agents update the UI in real-time
One interface, many minds working in sync.
→ A recruiter agent books interviews via a scheduling agent
→ A compliance agent runs background checks via a third-party agent
→ All agents update the UI in real-time
One interface, many minds working in sync.
Why this matters:
Most enterprises are building agents in silos.
A2A creates the interoperability layer needed for scale.
It’s not just about efficiency it’s about emergent collaboration between distributed intelligence.
Most enterprises are building agents in silos.
A2A creates the interoperability layer needed for scale.
It’s not just about efficiency it’s about emergent collaboration between distributed intelligence.
It also complements Anthropic’s MCP (Model Context Protocol).
MCP handles the context.
A2A handles the coordination.
Together, they form the base of a decentralized, modular AI stack.
MCP handles the context.
A2A handles the coordination.
Together, they form the base of a decentralized, modular AI stack.
Imagine a future where agents don’t just automate.
They negotiate, specialize, coordinate.
They behave like teams.
That future starts here.
A2A is the standard they’ll speak.
They negotiate, specialize, coordinate.
They behave like teams.
That future starts here.
A2A is the standard they’ll speak.
Google released A2A as an open protocol.
It’s public.
Extensible.
Actively co-developed with leaders like Atlassian, Salesforce, ServiceNow, LangChain, SAP, and more.
It’s public.
Extensible.
Actively co-developed with leaders like Atlassian, Salesforce, ServiceNow, LangChain, SAP, and more.
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