MCP Newsletter: Weekly Pulse

Google released Gemini 3 this morning, with lots of fanfare around its performance on benchmarks that suggest it may be a new leader. We’ll be watching the community’s opinion play out on whether it delivers on its promises in practice in the coming days.

But it’s getting harder to get excited about incremental model improvements. The release of OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 barely made a mark in the news cycle. xAI’s Grok 4.1 made even less, despite Elon Musk billing it as a “major release”.

Gemini 3 sneaks into our headlines anyway, largely because of the implications of this note, “That includes Gemini 3 in AI Mode in Search with more complex reasoning and new dynamic experiences.” It’s a reminder that Google’s distribution power remains unmatched. This release marks an instant deployment to millions and millions of Google Search users.

Our question to Google: when are you going to enter the era of embedded apps in your Gemini experiences? It seems inevitable. OpenAI has the Apps SDK. Anthropic seems primed to follow with some MCP-powered equivalent. Even Apple is engaging with an analogous concept with their recent investment in a Mini Apps Partner Program.

Hat tip to Angie Jones and the Goose team, who have been evangelizing the re-emergence of “web mashups” since early this year.

Anthropic’s Adam Jones spearheaded a post on Code Execution with MCP a couple weeks ago, and the reaction has b