Anthropic dropped MCP, an open-source Model Context Protocol that transforms how AI systems interact with external data sources. Pietro Schirano built a server that supports EverArt AI’s API to let Claude generate images. Alex Albert, Anthropic’s Head of Claude Relations, gave Claude the ability to search the web using the Brave Search API. Both of these things have been possible with ChatGPT for a while. It can search the web with Bing, it can generate images with DALL-E, but Anthropic’s MCP is different and far more powerful. MCP follows a client-server architecture where applications like Claude Desktop, IDEs and AI tools outside of Anthropic’s ecosystem act as clients, and servers are light adapters that expose data sources. These sources could be remote like APIs for GitHub or Slack, or local files and databases, which is another thing Pietro Schirano played around with, giving Claude the ability to create local files. https://youtube.com/shorts/pFM16nVrnD4?si=M90nhfaJd66pMbS2