Model Context Protocol: A promising AI integration layer, but not a standard (yet)

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the past couple of years as AI systems have become more capable of not just generating text, but taking actions, making decisions and integrating with enterprise systems, they have come with additional complexities. Each AI model has its own proprietary way of interfacing with other software. Every system added creates another integration jam, and IT teams are spending more time connecting systems than using them. This integration tax is not unique: It’s the hidden cost of today’s fragmented AI landscape. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the first attempts to fill this gap. It proposes a clean, stateless protocol for how large language models (LLMs) can discover and invoke external tools with consistent interfaces and minimal developer friction. This has the potential to transform isolated AI capabilities into composable, enterprise-ready ... Read full article.