<ul><li>GitHub and Microsoft, including GitHub’s corporate parent, have joined the steering committee for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data sources.</li><li>MCP allows models to access data from various sources like business tools, content repositories, and app development environments, facilitating two-way connections between data sources and AI applications.</li><li>Microsoft and GitHub plan to provide broad first-party support for MCP across their platforms, with integrations for Windows expected in the near future, enabling developers to expose app functionalities to MCP-enabled models.</li><li>Both Microsoft and GitHub are contributing to the MCP standard, with Microsoft focusing on enhancing authorization specs for secure connections and GitHub collaborating on a registry service for MCP servers to manage various MCP implementations.</li></ul>

GitHub, Microsoft embrace Anthropic’s spec for connecting AI models to data sources

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