OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic’s commonplace for connecting AI assistants to the programs the place knowledge resides.

In a post on X on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned that OpenAI will add assist for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP, throughout its merchandise, together with the desktop app for ChatGPT. MCP is an open supply commonplace that helps AI fashions produce higher, extra related responses to sure queries.

“Individuals love MCP and we’re excited so as to add assist throughout our merchandise,” Altman mentioned. “[It’s] accessible at present within the Brokers SDK and assist for [the] ChatGPT desktop app [and] Responses API [is] coming quickly!”

MCP lets fashions draw knowledge 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 knowledge sources and AI-powered purposes, corresponding to chatbots.

Builders can expose knowledge by “MCP servers” and construct “MCP purchasers” — as an illustration, apps and workflows — that connect with these servers on command. Within the months since Anthropic open sourced MCP, corporations together with Block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph have added MCP assist for his or her platforms.

“Excited to see the MCP love unfold to OpenAI – welcome!” Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger mentioned in an X post. “MCP has [become a] thriving open commonplace with 1000’s of integrations and rising. LLMs are most helpful when connecting to the information you have already got and software program you already use.”

OpenAI says it intends to share extra about its MCP plans in the coming months.