MCP Emerges as Crucial AI Infrastructure, Powering Top Products

Sep 17, 2025
O’Reilly Media
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Summary

MCP emerges as a vital AI infrastructure, powering top products from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, with a few key servers handling nearly half of all usage and supporting reading and writing operations for AI agents to interact with their environments.

Key Points

  • MCP has become the backbone of hundreds of AI pipelines and applications, with major players like Anthropic and OpenAI building it into their products.
  • MCP usage is concentrated among a few key servers, with the top 10 servers receiving nearly half of all GitHub stars.
  • The most popular MCP servers support both reading and writing operations, allowing AI agents to interact with and modify their environments.

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