What is Model Context Protocol? The emerging standard bridging AI and data, explained

What is Model Context Protocol? The emerging standard bridging AI and data, explained

MCP is the key to unlocking AI's full potential in the enterprise, the cloud, and beyond. Here's why.

Model Context Protocol: A Primer for the Developers

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is on its way to becoming the gold standard for integrating external resources into agentic workflows. While developers can use large language model (LLM)-specific mechanisms to incorporate tools, MCP is fast becoming the REST equivalent of integration. This series introduces Python developers to the fundamentals of MCP and its architecture. I will start with MCP’s motivation and high-level architecture, followed…

How to build and deliver an MCP server for production

In December of 2024, we published a blog with Anthropic about their totally new spec (back then) to run tools with AI agents: the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in developer appetite to build, share, and run their tools with Agentic AI – all using MCP. We’ve seen new MCP clients pop up, and big players like Google and OpenAI committing to this standard. However, nearly immediately, early growing pains have le…

Azure MCP Server's Public Preview Launches: Enhancing AI Agent Capabilities for Improved Performance and Efficiency - Market-News24

Microsoft has launched the Public Preview of the open-source Azure MCP Server, a tool aimed at enhancing the capabilities of AI agents by facilitating access to Azure resources. This server lets AI agents interact with various Azure services, such as Cosmos DB and Azure Storage, and execute commands using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Developers ...

How the Model Context Protocol has taken the AI world by storm

MCP is the three-letter abbreviation that is the talk of the AI town. How come? What are its benefits and downsides?

What is Model Context Protocol? The emerging standard bridging AI and data, explained - WorldNL Magazine

Flavio Coelho/Getty ImagesChances are, unless you're already deep into AI programming, you've never heard of Model Context Protocol (MCP). But, trust me, you will.MCP is rapidly emerging as a foundational standard for the next generation of AI-powered applications. Developed as an open standard by Anthropic in late 2024, MCP is designed to solve a core problem in the AI ecosystem: How to seamlessly and securely connect large language models (LLM…