Before the closed-door session of the International AI Service Interconnection Standards Working Conference began, Ryan sat in a chair in the lounge, eyes closed, running through the voting procedure once more in his head.
However he looked at it, nothing could possibly go wrong.
Apart from Source Intelligence Technology, OpenAI, and Nexus AI, forty-seven organizations had been invited to the closed-door session. Twenty of them had already explicitly told Ryan or Richard that they would vote for Nexus AI's MCP standard.
Securing such a high proportion before the meeting even began was naturally due in part to Ryan's skill at working people.
But Richard's contribution had been even more indispensable.
In artificial intelligence, there were fewer than ten truly top-tier players, but far more than forty-seven wealthy, influential organizations wanted a slice of the pie.
Who was invited and who got in was naturally decided by the AI Foundations organizing committee that had arranged the conference, and Richard, as its rotating chair, had the greatest say in those recommendations.
There were now three candidate protocols: MCP, OpenAI's GPT Actions, and the Tangyuan Protocol brought by companies affiliated with Source Intelligence.
More than half the voting organizations came from the United States. They naturally would not support a protocol proposed by a Chinese company.
As for the others, China, Japan, and South Korea each had a few spots, with some also going to Europe and Australia. But for one thing, they could not possibly all support the Tangyuan Protocol, and for another, some of those organizations had already coordinated with Ryan.
Besides, the voting organizations were not an online audience. They would not be swept up in emotion or change their votes on a whim. These organizations made decisions based on their interests.
At that thought, a confident smile returned to