AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
December 12, 2025

Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services — an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It’s a key step toward building a usable ecosystem of AI agents that might actually pay off some of the enormous investments these companies have made, and it all starts with three letters: MCP.
Source: AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key | The Verge
In 12 months or so, MCP is gone from an internal project at Claude at Anthropic to being extremely widely used and now has found a home at the Linux Foundation alongside other related technologies such as Goose.
This Verge story will give you an overview of the set of technologies and what’s happening next.







