One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parra and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation

Everyone, welcome to the Lit in Space podcast. This is Alessio, founder of Kernel Labs, and I'm joined by Swyx, editor of Lit in Space. Hey. And here we are joined finally in the studio for the first time. Welcome back, David, from Anthropic slash MCP. Yeah. Hey. Well, nice to finally talk to you in person. Like, last time, like, a year ago, it was over VC, and this is wave fun. I watched it back those eight months. It's it's been a crazy eight months, and, I think we just celebrated, like, the one year anniversary of MCP. Yes. We did. At least the public announcement. Yeah. And also last night or yesterday was the agentic AI omniscient launch. Yeah. That was nice. It was a nice event. It was nice to see the Entropic office Yeah. And I've been. You like that? Yeah. It's very good food. I I would say, in terms of my food bench, Entropic does rank over OpenAI. Yeah. So At least that that that's what we have going for us. Awesome, man. Do you wanna give just a quick overview of what's happening with MCP and how you're donating it to the foundation, and then we'll do kinda like a one year recap of the protocol itself, and then we'll have the rest of the leads from the foundation join us to do more of the high level. Yeah. And the yeah. That sounds good. Yeah. I mean, the where where we at at the moment, we have done, like, a year, like, a year ago, we launched it, and then we had this, like, crazy adoption over the last year now, which it felt like an eternity, honestly. But we have this, like, crazy, growth and, like, adoption, you know, through initially, through, like, Thanksgiving and Christmas very early with a lot of, like, builders building MCP, and then, you know, you had, like, the first big clients coming in, like, Cursor and Versus Code. And then, like, you had this, like, inflection point around April with, like, Sam Altman and, Satya and, Sundar and all, posting about, like, MTP and that they're gonna adopt MTP at Microsoft, at Google, at OpenAI, and that was really, like, the big inflection point. So Yeah. But in all of the time, you also had to do a lot of work on the protocol itself, right? We, like, we we moved we launched originally as, like, basically local only, we could, like, build local MCP servers for cloud desktop, but then we like in March, we moved into like, how can you do remote MCP server? So connect like really about like to a remote server and introduced like the first, iteration of authentication. And then in June, we revisited that and, like, improved it quite a little bit so that it works better for, you know, for enterprises in particularly. And we were very, very lucky that in that time from March to, …