Why we built—and donated—the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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Anthropic's Stuart Ritchie speaks with co-creator David Soria Parra about the development of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard to connect AI to external tools and services—and why Anthropic is donating it to the Linux Foundation. 00:00 - What is MCP? 01:21 - The problem MCP solves 02:46 - The USB-C analogy 03:45 - How MCP began 05:36 - What makes MCP different 08:05 - Community adoption 09:54 - Standards without mandates 11:05 - From Anthropic hackathon to Hacker News 13:37 - The decision to open source 15:18 - Donating MCP to the Linux Foundation 17:27 - The Agentic AI Foundation 20:34 - Criticisms of MCP 28:21 - The future of MCP 30:58 - What have people built with MCP? 32:53 - Advice for non-developers 34:58 - What David is most proud of

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