OPENAI adopts the standard of the Anthropic rival to connect AI models to data

Openai adopts the standard of the opponent of Anthropic to connect AI assistants to the systems where data reside.

In a Post on X on WednesdayOpenai CEO Sam Altman said OpenAi would add support for The context protocol of the anthropic modelor MCP, in its products, including the desktop application for Chatgpt. MCP is an open source standard that helps AI models produce better, more appropriate answers to certain requests.

“People love MCP and we are excited to add support for our products,” Altman said. “(This is) today in the agents SDK and support for () Chatgpt Desktop App (s) replied api (e) soon!”

MCP allows models to draw data from sources such as business tools and software to perform tasks, as well as from content and applications development environments. The protocol enables developers to build two -way connections between data sources and AI applications such as chatbots.

Developers can expose data via “MCP servers” and build “MCP customers” – for example, applications and work processes – which connect to these command servers. In the months after Anthropic Open Sourced MCP, companies, including block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium and Sourcegraph, added MCP support for their platforms.

“He is excited to see MCP’s love spread to Openai – Welcome!” Anthropic Chief Product Director Mike Kriger said in X postS “MCP has (become a) flourishing open standard with thousands of integration and growing. LLM are most useful when connecting to the data you already have and the software you already use.”

Openai says he intends to share more about his MCP plans In the coming monthsS