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Andy Halliday

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8321 total appearances

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The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

There are two suitors.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

One of them is Meta, which has done a bunch of moves and reversals and poaching.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And it seems like that as soon as somebody joins them, half of them run away, run away, run away.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

It's so dysfunctional.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And yet, it's very powerful.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And on the other hand, you've got OpenAI, which has continued to be, I think, a magnet for really high-end aspirational leadership in what's happening in AI.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And it seems that it's a very...

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

motivating and intellectually stimulating place to work because there are so many elements to it and all of them are doing incredible things.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Now, you're saying, where am I going to go?

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And it's such an obvious choice.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

I mean, why would anyone take a personal risk in their sort of choice of partner and go to meta at this point, just because of all of the red flags that have emerged.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So I just wanted to say that, but now I want to switch.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

I want to go ahead and comment on that, but I won't talk about Google MCP, the web MCP thing, how it relates to agents and,

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And why that's also a very important announcement.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

It just seems like... Yeah, there's a vibe there, right?

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Okay, so WebMCP, it was announced by Google, okay?

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And this is moving us closer to the ability of agents to work kind of seamlessly across the web on websites that you currently...

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

you know, navigate to and employ.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So what's the difference?

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Like we've talked on this show before about how the early browser agents, Comet, Atlas, et cetera, were doing what amounts to pixel analysis to try to figure out how to operate a website and then would take actions at the pixel level on the screen.