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Anthropic releases Model Context Protocol to standardize AI-data integration
Model Context Protocol, a new open source release from Anthropic, aims to eliminate the need to write code for every AI data integration.
Anthropic released its Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open-source tool to provide users with a standard way of connecting data sources to AI use cases. Alex Albert, head of Claude Relations at Anthropic, said on X that the company’s goal is “to build a world where AI connects to any data source” with MCP as a “universal translator.” “Part of what makes MCP powerful is that it handles both local resources (your databases, files, services) and remote ones (APIs like Slack or GitHub’s) through the same protocol,” Albert said.
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