OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic’s commonplace for connecting AI assistants to the methods the place information resides.
In a post on X on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned that OpenAI will add assist for Anthropic’s Mannequin Context Protocol, or MCP, throughout its merchandise, together with the desktop app for ChatGPT. MCP is an open-source commonplace that helps AI fashions produce higher and extra related responses to queries.
“Individuals love MCP and we’re excited so as to add assist throughout our merchandise,” he mentioned. “[It’s] accessible right now within the Brokers SDK and assist for [the] ChatGPT desktop app [and] Responses API [is] coming quickly!”
MCP lets fashions draw information from sources like enterprise instruments and software program to finish duties, in addition to from content material repositories and app growth environments. The protocol allows builders to construct two-way connections between information sources and AI-powered functions (e.g., chatbots).
Builders can expose information by “MCP servers” and construct “MCP purchasers” — as an illustration, apps and workflows — that hook up with these servers on command. Within the months since Anthropic launched it, firms together with Block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph have added MCP assist to their platforms.
“Excited to see the MCP love unfold to OpenAI – welcome!” Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger mentioned in post on X. “MCP has [become a] thriving open commonplace with hundreds of integrations and rising. LLMs are most helpful when connecting to the info you have already got and software program you already use.”