MCP gets an enterprise makeover

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The Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, has released an update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that aims to help enterprises adopt AI-based automation.

Open-sourced by Anthropic in November 2024, MCP provides a way for AI applications (agents) based on models like GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Opus 5 to connect to existing data sources, tools, or other applications. It defines how content is exchanged in a client-server architecture.

"The new release is MCP’s most important since remote MCP first launched over a year ago," wrote David Soria Parra, a member of technical staff at Anthropic and co-inventor of MCP, in a blog post. "It is a leap in serving scalable MCP servers and takes all the lessons learned over the last 18 months to provide a robust foundation for MCP’s future."

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