A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation
Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation …
Linux Foundation management formalizes that cross-vendor trajectory. It matters because the protocol sits at the handoff between models and the data or tools that make assistants useful in real workflows.
First-order effects
Governance of MCP shifts into a neutral industry-standard setting, reducing the extent to which adopters must rely on Anthropic to steward a shared integration layer.
AI companies and software teams using MCP gain a clearer common target for connecting models to data sources and tools.
Second-order effects
Model providers and application platforms face stronger pressure to support MCP where customers expect integrations to work across assistants, rather than treating tool connectivity as a proprietary feature.
Middleware providers become more important: earlier coverage identified middleware challenges around MCP, so implementation, security, and operational tooling remain differentiators even as the interface standardizes.
Third-order effects
If broad support persists, the layer that connects models to enterprise context may become shared infrastructure, shifting competition toward model capability, workflow design, and control of the surrounding platform.
Neutral stewardship could make context portability more durable, though practical interoperability will depend on how consistently vendors implement the standard and its extensions.
The trend: AI vendors are converging on shared context-and-tool interfaces while competing over the models and platforms that sit above them.
Big news in Agentic AI: Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation. It will join OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS & Cloudflare in establishing a new fund called the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), whose goal is to “advance open-source agentic AI.” https://www.theverge.com/...
oh, we're in Web3 phase of bubble already. next is just a few big scam revealed followed by 25 years in jail, and we're ready for the next bubble. oh, can't wait. https://www.theverge.com/...
it's really funny how Linus Torvalds kinda rolls his eyes at the latest tech trends when his employer is the repository of What's Hot: cloud computing, k8s, RISC-V, they even have a block chain org, and now MCP.
“Josh Blyskal, who leads strategy and research for AEO (think: essentially SEO for AI) at Profound, believes MCP will ‘absolutely become a standard, especially in commerce,’ and he says in a year, the way AI companies currently scrape websites will look ‘antiquated.’” — A VERY …
Today we launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with project contributions of MCP (Anthropic), goose (Block) and AGENTS.md (OpenAI), creating a shared ecosystem for tools, standards, and community-driven innovation. — Learn more: www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux- ... #open…
I have no idea if AI agents will ever really work as promised but Anthropic handing over control of MCP to the Linux Foundation is one of those standards-make-the-industry stories The Verge is best at. @haydenfield.bsky.social knocked it out of the park -> www.theverge.com/ai-art…
Linux Foundation announces the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), anchored by new project contributions including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md