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Steven Sinofsky quote, Mar 28, 2025

Board partner, Andreessen Horowitz · Mar 28, 2025 · Essay, MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?

Enterprise IT is excited because one big promise of AI, especially agentic AI, is that everything will connect to everything.

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Steven Sinofsky, Board partner, Andreessen Horowitz
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MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?
Topics
Agents, Enterprise-AI
Company
Andreessen Horowitz
Source
hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/230-mcp-its-hot-but-will-it-win

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