It signals a broader industry shift toward open-source LLMs—one that could reshape how businesses plan and deploy AI at scale. Yet, R1 is not alone in this space.

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC today released a toolkit for connecting large language models to external systems.The Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, is available under an ...

Using open-source LLMs is essential for reproducibility. Proprietors of closed LLMs can alter their product or its training data — which can change its outputs — at any time.