ChatGPT-related MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool calls increased 98-fold from January through August this year, according to Flop Labs, citing the Linux Foundation-backed Agentic AI Foundation. The foundation said monthly downloads of the related software development kits, or SDKs, approached 500 million. Flop Labs said the calls were initiated by AI agents rather than directly by users and were billed on a per-call basis, highlighting rapidly rising computing demand from autonomous software. It also argued that funds held by agents should be directly exchangeable for computing power, a principle it identified as the design basis for its $FLOP token. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined the Agentic AI Foundation's board the following day.