Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis announced that Google will add support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP, to its Gemini models and SDK. He gave no timeline.
“MCP is a good protocol and it’s rapidly becoming an open standard for the AI agentic era,” wrote Hassabis….
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