**[OpenAI Adds Cloud Hosting for MCP: Turn Your Work into a ChatGPT Plugin Instantly]** Beating AI Newsflash: OpenAI has added MCP Server hosting to ChatGPT Sites. Previously, if you wrote an MCP and wanted it to be called by cloud-based ChatGPT, you typically had to find and deploy your own server. Now, you can directly run MCP on Sites, then turn it into a ChatGPT plugin. Once installed, it can be used on the web, mobile, and desktop platforms. OpenAI's Max Stoiber demonstrated completing the entire process with a single command. He instructed Sites to "create a to-do list that can be used in ChatGPT," and the system automatically created an MCP Server, deployed it to Sites, generated a plugin, and installed it into ChatGPT. This primarily addresses the deployment issue of local MCPs. If an MCP only runs on your local computer, it becomes inaccessible to cloud-based ChatGPT once the computer is turned off. By switching to Sites hosting, the MCP can run continuously in the cloud without requiring developers to maintain their own servers. [Original Article Link]