Inside Stainless: The Developer Tools Startup Anthropic Just Bought for $300 Million

The internet runs on computers talking to each other, but its entire architecture was built for a pre-AI world. Now we're trying to hook AI up to the internet with MCP, Model Context Protocol, which turns any website or web service into a set of tools that an AI can use natively to get work done.

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1. 01The internet runs on computers talking to each other, but its entire architecture was built for a pre-AI world
2. 02Now we're trying to hook AI up to the internet with MCP, Model Context Protocol, which turns any website or web service into a set of tools that an AI can use natively to get work
3. 03They make the API and SDKs for all the big companies that you know about, like OpenAI and Anthropic, and they're starting to build MCP servers too