Openai adds support to Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, an Open Source standard to connect artificial intelligence applications to data storage. Developers can use it to make sure their chatbots only provide answers based on relevant information.
Openai CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday via X that the protocol can now be used in the Agent’s SDK, its tool set to build AI-powered agents. The company’s developer team added that it is working to add support to the Chatgpt Desktop app and Openai API, and will advertise more in the coming months.
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How does MCP AI systems help access data?
Scaling AI models can be a fuzzy process as they constantly need access to new third-party sources, such as cloud servers, business platforms and older systems. Each source will speak its own technological language and require developers to build custom integrations for each one.
MCP is effectively a universal language that can be used to develop two-way connections between a wide range of AI models and third-party data sources. “The result is a simpler, more reliable way to give AI systems access to the data they need,” Anthropic said.
Developers who create AI agents with agents SDK can either postpone their data through so-called “MCP servers” or build “MCP clients”, ie. Apps that easily connect to the servers. This removes the need for countless custom -built integrations and gives AI access to the information it needs across different tools without losing context.
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger said he was “excited to see MCP love spread to Openai” in an X post. “LLMS is most useful when you connect to the data you already have and software you are already using.”
MCP was made open source in November, and since then a number of AI platforms have announced support, including Microsoft Copilot, Apollo, Replit, Codeium and Source Graph.
Which AI platforms support MCP?
It was just over a week ago that Microsoft announced MCP support in COPILOT STUDIO, which allowed users to connect their agents to MCP servers directly within the platform. But right after the Openai message, Redmond also released a playwright MCP server at GitHub. MCP agents will easily connect to the server to get automated browser features such as clicking, writing and browsing the Internet.
Of course, the more AI companies that adopt MCP, the more valuable it becomes for the AI ​​community. With Openai – Anthropic’s biggest rival – now on board, anthropic may be on the way to establishing the global standard of agent.