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AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/841156/ai-companies-aaif-anthropic-mcp-model-context-protocol

145 sats \ 5 comments \ @0xbitcoiner 10 Dec AI

MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away.

Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services — an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It’s a key step toward building a usable ecosystem of AI agents that might actually pay off some of the enormous investments these companies have made, and it all starts with three letters: MCP.

MCP, or Model Context Protocol, began as a passion project from two Anthropic employees, but since its creation in mid-2024, it’s been widely adopted by companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Cursor. There are even hints that Apple will use MCP in its forthcoming AI-enabled version of Siri. There have been competitors to MCP, but so far it’s been a standards war without any real battle — MCP has quickly taken over the industry.

And now it’s official: This week, Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation — and joining OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Block, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare in establishing a new fund called the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), whose goal is to “advance open-source agentic AI.” The donation, and assigning a neutral body to govern MCP, will likely help supercharge its growth.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 12 Dec

there seems to have been some cross-site failure between the redirect patterns of theverge, the archive site's routing, and the link in your post.

The prefix search¹ of AI articles from theverge shows that someone other than myself already tried archiving the article² separately from you, and the few redirects that might have also been from stackers chasing the link for related articles, author information, and advertisements for tearing off a case of the mondays.... this comment is pointless, and zapping yours has failed, so chasing SN bugs will probably prove more profitable than spending more nanopayments filling the site's logs with failed zaps³.

I tried a really general one, first, as obviously it's interesting to get an idea for whether the publisher talks much about specific providers, or has published some press release sporadically: https://archive.is/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/* ↩
Narrowing the archive search down along route /841156 gets all sorts of other people's tracking metada; I'll leave this secondhand chewing gum inventory to the slightly more promptable of ~devs ↩
looks like the cowshit floor height is the discriminator of this latest failure ↩

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 12 Dec

[...] and it all starts with three letters: MCP.

I do hope some human copywriter had fun imagining how some competing automation might cope; three Roman letters is awfully concise for triggering anything useful from the loss leaders, even when their MCP frames include the history of MCP.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 11 Dec

~meta

DOES NOT BELONG ON FRONTPAGE UNLESS THERE ARE COMMENTS

I DO NOT CARE HOW MUCH ANYONE ZAPPED THE LINK

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 11 Dec

Thanks for making this post deserve the front page! Haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 12 Dec

well it really pissed me off; I skim the frontpage, thinking of things like "what would spez do, if this were still his project and I got hired because Aaron Schwartz wandered off", and saw zero comments, an ignorable statice of the zap leaders, and it was literally the last post before the "More" button, so I had to either ignore it or let the frontpage talk.

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