MCP protocol, now under Linux Foundation, gains traction as AI search standard
Contexte Tech's Tony argues that the Model Context Protocol (MCP), launched by Anthropic in November 2024, is increasingly used by AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to fetch live answers directly from publishers' own servers rather than relying on frozen training data. The protocol was transferred in December 2025 to the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and has progressed through several dated versions, with a public registry now listing available servers.