You’re already sick of the words Agent and Agentic, but you know they are the new new thing. You may not have heard the initialism MCP, but you’re going to start hearing about it now. A lot.
In a somewhat surprising move, OpenAI announced it will adopt Anthropic’s Management Control Protocol (MCP) across its product line. CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that OpenAI will integrate MCP support into its Agents SDK immediately, with the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API following soon.
This is bigger than it sounds. Much bigger. . -s
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