Anthropic

An open standard protocol (MCP) that unifies and securely standardizes how AI models and applications connect to external data repositories, databases, and tool servers.

The practice of storing pre-computed Key-Value (KV) states of prompt tokens on model servers to eliminate redundant processing and drastically reduce latency and cost for repetitive context.

The maximum continuous sequence of tokens that a language model can accept, process, and attend to during a single inference pass.