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Learnings from Anthropic's extraordinarily successful Launch and Workshop

Why MCP Won Learnings from Anthropic's extraordinarily successful Launch and Workshop Mar 10, 2025 ∙ Paid 165 1 22 Share Since this post, OpenAI (3/27) and Google (4/9) announced MCP support. Dear AI Engineers, I’m sorry for all the MCP filling your timeline right now. The Model Context Protocol launched in November 2024 and it was decently well received , but the initial flurry of excitement (with everyone from Copilot to Cognition to Cursor adding support) died down 1 right until the Feb 26-27 AI Engineer Summit , where a chance conversation with Barry Zhang led to us booking Mahesh Murag (w

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