MCP has crossed 97 million installs in 16 months - faster than React reached comparable scale. The standard for agent-to-tool connectivity is settled. Meanwhile Anthropic holds 40% of enterprise LLM spend, Claude Code is in production, and every major AI vendor is competing on governance and deployment trust, not just benchmark scores.

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The agent connectivity standard has been decided - and 97 million installs later, the infrastructure race begins.

MCP's adoption curve - from Anthropic launch in November 2024 to 97 million installs by March 2026, with every major AI vendor now backing it through the Linux Foundation - marks the end of the fragmented integration era for AI agents. The next competition is not over the protocol. It is over who builds the most valuable managed services on top of it.

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