[keithwhor]

Quick follow up:

I anticipate alignment issues as well. Anthropic is building MCP to make the Anthropic experience great. But Anthropic's traffic is fractional compared to ChatGPT - 20M monthly vs 400M weekly. Gemini claims 350M monthly. The incentive structure is all out of whack; how long are OpenAI and Google going to let an Anthropic team (or even a committee?) drive an integration spec?

Consumers have barely interacted with these things yet. They did once, with ChatGPT Plugins, and it failed. It doesn't entirely make sense to me that OpenAI is okay to do this again but let another company lead the charge and define the limitations of the end user experience (because that what the spec ultimately does, dictates how prompts and function responses are transported), when the issue wasn't the engineering effort (ChatGPT's integration model was objectively more elegant) but a consumer experience issue.

The optimistic take on this is the community is strong and motivated enough to solve these problems as an independent group, and the traction is certainly there. I am interested to see how it all plays out!

[Scotrix]

OpenAI takes the backseat and wait until something stable/usable comes out of it which gains traction and takes it over then. Old classic playbook to let others make the mistakes and profit from it…