🚀 Just Released: The New Cloud-Deployable OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)
We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest edition of the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)—now equipped with powerful MCP and A2A protocol support, on both the client and server sides.
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đź’ˇ Why it matters:
This is software—redefined.
Natural language is now a first-class UI/UX component. Data Spaces—databases, knowledge graphs, and filesystems—are loosely coupled with LLMs.
And it all runs, with ease, where you need it: in the cloud or at the edge.
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⚙️ Deploying to the cloud? It’s simple:
1. Go to the AWS Marketplace
2. Instantiate the OPAL AMI
3. Open https://{CNAME}/chat and log in
4. Plug in your favorite LLM API key from providers
Enjoy!
3/N 🧵
🧠This isn’t just about AI hype.
It’s a working example of how loosely coupled software, rooted in decades of standards-based middleware and Semantic Web architecture, is making modern AI useful—fast, secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade.
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🧰 This is what modern AI infrastructure looks like.
Here’s a quick showcase featuring @AnthropicAI
’s Claude Desktop interacting with a live OPAL instance that queries the DBpedia Knowledge Graph—entirely instructed using natural language.
Again, all you have to do it initialize an OPAL instance from the AWS Cloud's marketplace.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ynmginpwzszuo
Here’s an example of A2A and MCP working in concert: a Data Twingler Agent—built from tools that perform SQL or SPARQL queries—responds to requests from an A2A Orchestrator, which receives input from the user.
#MCP #A2A #Screencast #OPAL #SQL #SPARQL #DataSpaces #KnowledgeGraph #DBMS
What’s happening here?
An A2A Orchestrator is interacting with an LLM-powered AI Agent that exposes procedures, functions, 3rd party APIs etc., as MCP-accessible tools.
All made possible by the, in deceptively simple manner, by the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL).
Another major benefit of Anthropic’s Claude Desktop support for remote MCP servers is the ability to combine powerful data access and visualization in notebooks that can be shared via web links.
OPAL MCP server example: an earlier demo ⤵️
https://claude.ai/share/11cb4025-a693-45a0-85a8-f9ac3bb0251b
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