SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft and GitHub announced they are joining the steering committee for MCP, the open standard developed by Anthropic to enable artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect with external data systems, at the Microsoft Build 2025 conference on Monday.
MCP (Model Connection Protocol) is rapidly gaining adoption across the AI industry. Earlier this year, both OpenAI and Google expressed their commitment to supporting MCP in their respective AI products.
