What’s MCP all about? Comparing MCP with LLM function calling

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale at 12 Mar 2025, 18:16 UTC

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been rapidly gaining traction, going viral on social media over the past two weeks. The community has already built dozens of MCP servers across a wide spectrum of domains, extending LLM capabilities with external tools, services, and data sou...