Klein: Consumer AI agents and tools like Anthropic MCP will run locally
Paul Klein · Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents · Feb 28, 2025 · at 30:22
Paul Klein, founder of Browserbase, discusses the architectural shift toward desktop-first consumer AI assistants like Claude Desktop and MCP.
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“There's a case where a lot of people are going desktop first for, you know, consumer use. And I think Claude is doing a lot of this where I expect to see, you know, MCP is really oriented around the Claude desktop app for a reason, right? Like I think a lot of these tools are going to run on your computer”
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