Clarifai drives agentic AI development with MCP server hosting & OpenAI compatibility
Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform company… and the organisation has announced software designed to help build AI agents.
By integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) server hosting with OpenAI-compatible APIs, Clarifai says it offers developers a way to build AI quickly.
Clarifai’s technology promises gains in efficiency, more efficient resource consumption and management.
Essentially a compute orchestration product, this offering includes so-called Local Runners, services to ensure AI runs quickly, efficiently and securely.
There is a connection here between Clarifai’s new MCP Server Hosting and its OpenAI-compatible APIs to address challenges in agentic AI development.
- Empowering Smarter Agents with MCP Server Hosting: Clarifai now allows users to upload and host their own custom tools, functions and APIs as an MCP server, making them callable by AI agents or models.
This capability enables AI agents to integrate proprietary business logic and real-time data directly into their operational intelligence.
These custom components are fully hosted, versioned and managed by Clarifai, providing agents with the ability to access unique, domain-specific information (e.g., a pricing calculator for an insurance agent) or proprietary internal systems. This control allows users to host and run their custom tools as MCP servers anywhere (from a local machine to a private cloud infrastructure) and Clarifai offers hardware-agnostic orchestration for agent-facing tools.
Accelerating with OpenAI APIs
With the introduction of OpenAI-compatible APIs, Clarifai significantly simplifies the integration process, enabling developers to integrate with over 100 open-source and third-party models from the Clarifai community by leveraging their existing clients and tools with minimal code changes.
This eliminates friction, accelerates testing, and ensures instant interoperability with established tech stacks. Teams can now seamlessly switch to Clarifai’s powerful Agentic AI models from familiar OpenAI API endpoints, preserving their existing tooling while potentially gaining enhanced accuracy, improved privacy, or reduced switching costs across different teams or models.
Artjom Shestajev, senior product manager at Clarifai says that his firm’s MCP server hosting “unleashes a new level of agent intelligence”, allowing them to directly interact with an organisation’s unique operational DNA and proprietary data sources.
“Paired with our OpenAI-compatible APIs, we’re not just accelerating deployment; we’re breaking down barriers, enabling developers to integrate these highly capable agents into their existing infrastructure almost instantly, driving rapid, impactful innovation,” said Shestajev.
These features enhance Clarifai’s existing Agent Toolkit Integrations, which provide out-of-the-box support for leading agent frameworks, including CrewAI, LangChain, LiteLLM, and Google ADK. This comprehensive approach allows users to build sophisticated agent workflows using their preferred tools, streamlining the entire journey from conception to production.
Clarifai’s continuous innovation in compute orchestration helps businesses significantly reduce operational costs by enabling AI models to be up to 10x more resource-efficient, while also providing enhanced security and control over their entire AI ecosystem.
