Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data
Only a few weeks after OpenAi said it would assume the standard of rival Anthropic to connect AI models with the systems where data is located, Google follows.
In a post on X on WednesdayGoogle DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has announced that Google will add support for the model context protocol from Anthropic, or MCP, to its Gemini models and SDK. He didn’t give a timeline.
“MCP is a good protocol and it quickly becomes an open standard for the AI -agent era,” Hassabis wrote. “I look forward to developing it further with the MCP team and others in the industry.”
MCP has models drawing data from sources such as business tools and software to complete tasks, as well as from content repositories and app development environments. The protocol enables developers to build two-way connections between data sources and AI-driven applications, such as chatbots.
Developers can uncover data via “MCP servers” and “MCP clients” building – for example apps and workflows – that connect to those servers on the command. In the months since Anthropic MCP Open Sourceed MCP, companies such as Block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium and Sourcegraph have added MCP support for their platforms.
