Anthropic Model Context Protocol has quietly become a shared standard for how AI agents talk to tools and data, and is now being handed to the Linux Foundation to grow as open infrastructure.
Model Context Protocol and the race to build an AI native internet
The article explains how big AI labs have converged on a simple idea: instead of every company inventing its own tool system, they use a shared protocol called Model Context Protocol, or MCP. It defines how models discover tools, call them, and plug into external data, so agents from different companies can work with the same ecosystem.
Key points from the piece
- MCP started as a small Anthropic side project, then spread to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others.
- Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation and launching the Agentic AI Foundation with other tech giants to steward it.
- The long term vision is an AI native internet where agents can roam across services using common open plumbing instead of private silos.
Read the original article on The Verge.
