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About Theodora Chu
Theo is a product manager at Anthropic, focused on bringing knowledge to models. She works on the Anthropic API as well as MCP. Prior to Anthropic, she spent much of her career building zero-to-one products at her own startup as well as at Stripe. She's come full circle since dropping out of her master's in NLP at Stanford.

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Anthropic's Product Manager Theodora Chu explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard that enables AI models to interact with external systems and data sources. MCP originated from engineers copying context between applications and LLMs, evolving into a protocol that gives models agency to access real-world data and perform actions. The protocol has gained adoption from major companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, with significant opportunities for building servers across different verticals, improving developer tooling, and enhancing AI security and observability.

Model Context Protocol: Origins and Requests For Startups — Theodora Chu, MCP PM, Anthropic