Last November Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard designed to streamline how AI models interact with APIs. As we explained earlier this month, the vision is to make MCP the universal method for AI agents to trigger external actions.
MCP has drawn a lot of interest in its first few months, including from API management companies like Speakeasy. API companies see MCP as a linking mechanism to the rich ecosystem of LLMs and agentic frameworks. To find out more, I spoke to Speakeasy CEO Sagar Batchu.