OpenAI adopts MCP (Agents SDK)

OpenAI adopted MCP (Agents SDK)

Why it matters

A competitor accepting its rival's standard made it the de facto industry standard

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Presstechcrunch.comhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/openai-adopts-rival-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/

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