OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents - The Next Web

OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor and Vercel launched Agent Plugins, an open standard letting an agent extension run across ChatGPT, Copilot and more.

The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a s…