How MCP Won: From Side Project to the Standard for AI

In under two years, the Model Context Protocol went from an open-source release almost nobody noticed to the universal connector of the AI industry — adopted by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AWS, governed by the Linux Foundation, and pulling 97 million SDK downloads a month. Colin and Christian break down why MCP won (hint: it's a math problem), what the July 2026 spec release changes, and the three things a standardized tool layer means for any company deploying AI agents: integrations that are already built, real model portability, and dormant APIs finally earning their keep.