Openai employs the standards of rival humanity to connect AI assistants to systems where data resides.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Openai CEO Sam Altman said Openai will add support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products, including a desktop app for ChatGPT. MCP is an open source standard that helps AI models produce better and more relevant responses to specific queries.
“People love MCPs and are excited to add support to the entire product,” says Altman. “(It’s) available in the Agent SDK and support for (The) ChatGpt Desktop App (and) Response API (IS) will soon be available!”
With MCP, models can draw data from sources such as business tools and software to complete tasks from content repository and app development environments. This protocol allows developers to build two-way connections between data sources and AI-powered applications such as chatbots.
Developers can build “MCP clients” (for example, apps, workflows, etc.) that expose data via “MCP servers” and connect to the server on commands. For months since human open source MCP, companies such as Block, Apollo, Replica, Codeum, Sourcegraph and others have added MCP support to their platforms.
“I was excited to see MCP’s love spread across Openai – Welcome!” Mike Krieger, chief product officer of humanity, said in an X’s post. “MCP has thrived open standards with thousands of integrations and growth. LLM is the most useful when connecting to data you already have and software you already use.”
Openai says it plans to share more about its MCP plans in the coming months.