In order to enhance user experiences, Microsoft has described its vision for a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents from various businesses may collaborate easily, exchanging data and remembering previous exchanges.
Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spoke ahead of the company’s annual Build conference in Seattle on May 19 and outlined initiatives to advance industry-wide standards that facilitate interoperability among AI agents, which are software systems created to carry out particular tasks, like debugging software, on their own.
Scott disclosed that Anthropic, an AI research company supported by Google, launched the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP), which Microsoft is now supporting. Similar to how hypertext protocols helped the internet grow in the 1990s, MCP seeks to establish a “agentic web.”
