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## Adapting open source practices to an AI-first world: A retrospective on 2025

DevFeed: [Adapting open source practices to an AI-first world: A retrospective on 2025](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adapting-open-source-practices-to-an-ai-first-world-a-retrospective-on-2025-34317.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/08/adapting-open-source-practices-to-an-ai-first-world-a-retrospective-on-2025.html>)

Author: Google Open Source (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2026-08-03T18:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Google Open Source Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/google-open-source-blog.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [A2A protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/a2a-protocol.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interoperability.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [linux foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux-foundation.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [LLVM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llvm.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [vllm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vllm.md>), [gRPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grpc.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [a2a](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/a2a.md>), [a2a-protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/a2a-protocol.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [google-open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-open-source.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interoperability.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [linux-foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux-foundation.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [report-card](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report-card.md>), [retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrospective.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [vllm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vllm.md>)

### AI overview

Google reviews Alphabet's 2025 open source activity, including employee and external contributions, collaboration on the Agent2Agent protocol, and the maintenance and launch of public repositories and tools.

### Source excerpt

by Sophia Vargas, Google Open Source Even as AI adoption accelerates and transforms the global technology landscape, open source remains foundational to how Alphabet builds, uses, and collaborates on products for billions of users. Our commitment to open source remains broad and consistent, including sharing our work year-over-year, and reflecting on what we've learned. In 2025: Roughly 10% of Alphabet's full-time workforce actively contributed to open source projects. This contribution ratio has remained steady over the past five years, scaling to match our growth. These open source contributions are not just solely focused on Google. Our top projects by unique contributors at Alphabet include community-led projects such as LLVM, vLLM, Envoy, and Rust, as well as Google-initiated projects like Kubernetes, Apache Beam, and gRPC. In addition, Alphabet projects received commits from more than 20,000 non-Alphabet affiliated user accounts. Working together on emerging standards Open source communities continue to provide vital collaborative spaces to define emerging standards, ensuring the interoperability and extensibility for the next generation of technologies. In 2025, we worked with more than 50 partners on the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to enable AI agents to communicate with each other, securely exchange information, and coordinate actions on top of various enterprise platforms and applications. Within weeks of our initial announcement, Google donated the A2A project to the Linux Foundation as part of our long-standing commitment to develop "open, collaborative ecosystem - offering greater autonomy and multiplying productivity." Launching tools with transparency Open source licenses provide a framework for anyone to explore, test, fork and expand on our technologies. Over the last 15 years, Google has created more than 15,000 public repositories on GitHub. Today, Google continues to maintain more than 5,000 public repositories on GitHub, and more than 1,500 publi