AI with Arun Show
The MCP Gateway | Secure Enterprise AI at Scale | Shannon Williams (Obot.ai/Rancher Labs)
07 Nov 2025
The podcast from the "AI with Arun Show," featuring an interview with Shannon Williams, Co-founder and President of Obot.ai, and formerly of Rancher Labs. The discussion centers on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is presented as a crucial protocol for securely connecting applications, data, and tools to Large Language Models (LLMs). Williams explains that Obot.ai provides an open-source MCP gateway, which runs on Kubernetes and acts as a control plane and proxy for managing, auditing, and securing the proliferation of MCP servers within an enterprise. A major theme is the challenge of enterprise adoption of MCP due to security and governance concerns, which Obot.ai’s gateway addresses by providing management, authentication via OAuth, and guardrails to define access and content filters. Williams also discusses his belief that the future of AI will involve highly engineered, powerful "universal agents" built as next-generation MCP servers, comparing MCP's potential to the impact of HTTP.#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseAI #MCP #ModelContextProtocol #OpenSource #AISecurity #AIGateway #ObatAI #ShannonWilliams #RancherLabs #Kubernetes #LLM #AIStrategy #TechPodcast #Podcast #AIwithArunShow #FutureofAI #Databases #API
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