"People love MCP and we're excited to add support to our product," Altman said. "It's available in the Agents SDK today, with support for the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API coming soon!"
MCP allows models to pull data from sources such as business tools and software to complete tasks, as well as from content repositories and application development environments. The protocol enables developers to establish two-way connections between data sources and artificial intelligence applications such as chatbots.
Developers can expose data through "MCP servers" and build "MCP clients" (such as applications and workflows) that connect to these servers on command. In the months since Anthropic open-sourced MCP, companies including Block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph have added MCP support to their platforms.
"It's great to see the MCP love spreading to OpenAI - welcome!" Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger said in an X post. "MCP has become a thriving open standard with thousands of integrations and growing. LLM is most useful when connected to the data you already have and the software you already use."
OpenAI said it intends to share more information about its MCP plans in the coming months.