One of the biggest large language model vendors is about to be offered as public shares sold on the stock exchange in an initial public offering. Anthropic’s industry emerged from research conducted at Google in 2017 on the generative pre-trained transformer architecture. (GPT is used to create the large language models that now proliferate broadly across the world technology sector.) Simply stated, LLMs generate predictive text, images or code for the future based on things said or indexedd in the past. There is an often quoted idiom that history doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes with the past. Recently many people have been thinking about the emergence of the LLM industry in light of all the private companies hoping to sell their shares in the near future. I've been thinking and discussing a lot about one of the concepts Anthropic pioneered as a now-standardized web architecture called MCP, model context protocol . (MCP can be thought of like a handshake between agentic syst...
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