VMware ups Tanzu’s gen AI support, sheds Kubernetes dependence – SiliconANGLE

The VMware Tanzu division of Broadcom Inc. today is adding generative artificial intelligence to its platform-as-a-service that includes support for the new Model Context Protocol defined by Anthropic PBC and dissociating itself from Kubernetes, the orchestrator for software containers with which Tanzu has long been associated.

Introduced last November by Anthropic, MCP is a standardized way for AI models, particularly large language models, to interact with and access external data,…