How MCP servers will be supported with ChatGPT? Can we guess?

ChatGPT Feature requests
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Hello.
I started to learn how MCP works. It would be nice to know how exactly will OpenAI add this support to ChatGPT.

In the tweet Sam says “support for chatgpt desktop app”. So, maybe the plan is to support it similar way like Clause Desktop does.

But i hope OpenAI will have more support for this.
MCP Servers have two types of servers STDIO and SSE.
SSE servers are “remote servers”. Can run on any host. But STDIO must be on the same machine as the LLM app.
I hope OpenAI will support SSE MCP servers and it will be possible to connect them not only to ChatGTP Desktop but also to web version of ChatGPT?
Do you think it is possible?
If yet it would be fantastic !

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I’m 100% sure they will support SSE MCP in the API (and also the desktop etc). It will make things much easier for tool calling, including in the dashboard.

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The OpenAI Agents SDK already supports both types of servers. I think it’s reasonable to assume that this won’t be a limitation when this feature is rolled out to the desktop app.

Otherwise it’s absolutely possible to use MCP with custom GPTs right now.

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Any estimates on when we can expect the desktop app to be an mcp client?

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I would like to use MCP as well, but I would prefer not to switch from the ChatGPT app to the Claude app because of it.

I mostly interact through the ChatGPT app and having MCP here would make things way more efficient for me.