Google, Apple, Samsung, and practically every other big tech firm are promising a future where AI will take over your phone and computer. However, as

Anthropic’s New Tool Shows Us How ‘Agentic’ AI Will Take Over Phone Apps in 2025

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2024-11-26 18:00:07

Google, Apple, Samsung, and practically every other big tech firm are promising a future where AI will take over your phone and computer. However, as it currently stands, newfangled AI assistants aren’t as intelligent as their name suggests. Anthropic—the makers of the Claude chatbot—has a new tool that promises to give any assistant access to any app. If the future truly is based on “agentic AI,” then this model may be the way that Apple Intelligence or Gemini will collect the data from any of your devices’ apps.

The tool is called the Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic said on Monday it was making open source and free to use for any developer. This protocol will create an information channel between a data source, even app data, and an AI assistant. This is designed for use by AI agents like Anthropic’s Claude desktop app. Anthropic said this connection is “secure,” since—instead of exposing their app’s data—third-party developers can instead build a “MCP client,” AKA a separate AI application, to connect to their private servers.

While this ostensibly could be used by companies to allow any AI to access internal data more easily, it may also offer a new standard for how apps offer up their prized data to AI assistants. So far, AI apps like Google’s Gemini on both Android and iOS can access the tech giant’s own Workspace apps, so long as users give it permission. This means it can dig through your Gmail to surface some lost missives or turn any text reservations into an event on Google Calendar. Currently, Gemini doesn’t have access to third-party apps except through extensions.

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