Forget ChatGPT and other LLMs, agentic AI is where it’s at now.
In the spirit of a technology developed by AI company Anthropic, Microsoft sees the future of AI where there are lots of different systems, created by lots of different companies, all working together, in peace and harmony. Or to put it in the same words that Microsoft used, create an «agentic web».
That’s according to a report by Reuters, which relayed the views of Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, ahead of the software company’s annual Build conference. What Scott hopes to achieve is to have Microsoft’s AI agents happily work with those from other companies, via a standard platform called the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
This is an open-source standard, created by Anthropic—an AI business that’s a mere four years old. The idea behind it is that it makes it much easier for AI systems to access and share for training purposes, and when it comes to the specific area of AI agents, it should help them perform far better at their tasks.
Fundamentally, AI agents are a type of artificial intelligence system that just do one very specific task, such as searching through code for a certain bug and then fixing it.
