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The Creators of Model Context Protocol
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- Apr 3, 2025
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We are happy to announce that there will be a dedicated MCP track at the 2025 AI Engineer World's Fair , taking place Jun 3rd to 5th in San Francisco , where the MCP core team and major contributors and builders will be meeting. Join us and apply to speak or sponsor ! When we first wrote Why MCP Won , we had no idea how quickly it was about to win. In the past 4 weeks, OpenAI and now Google have now announced the MCP support, effectively confirming our prediction that MCP was the presumptive winner of the agent standard wars. MCP has now overtaken OpenAPI , the incumbent option and most direct alternative, in GitHub stars (3 months ahead of conservative trendline): We have explored the state of MCP at AIE (now the first ever >100k views workshop): And since then, we’ve added a 7th reason why MCP won - this team acts very quickly on feedback, with the 2025-03-26 spec update adding support for stateless/resumable/streamable HTTP transports , and comprehensive authz capabilities based on OAuth 2.1 . This bodes very well for the future of the community and project. For protocol and history nerds, we also asked David and Justin to tell the origin story of MCP , which we leave to the reader to enjoy (you can also skim the transcripts, or, the changelogs of a certain favored IDE). It’s incredible the impact that individual engineers solving their own problems can have on an entire industry. Full video episode Like and subscribe on YouTube ! Show Links * David * Justin * MCP * Why MCP Won Timestamps * 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome * 00:37 What is MCP? * 02:00 The Origin Story of MCP * 05:18 Development Challenges and Solutions * 08:06 Technical Details and Inspirations * 29:45 MCP vs Open API * 32:48 Building MCP Servers * 40:39 Exploring Model Independence in LLMs * 41…