Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data | TechCrunch

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….