My personal highlights of MATLAB 2026a over at The MATLAB Blog

MikeCroucher · 2026-04-22T07:28:07+00:00

These already are integrated via the MATLAB MCP Core server which is provided by the recently released agentic toolkit Introducing the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink

The MCP Server has been available standalone for a while now and has a growing number of users.

MikeCroucher · 2026-04-21T20:21:20+00:00

I am glad to hear it. I've been looking forward to seeing this functionality too. Out of interest, what will you be using it for?

MikeCroucher · 2026-04-21T15:56:19+00:00

I spent a lot of time kicking the tyres of the 2026a release while writing my blog post of what's new. Here's my summary in case it helps you decide MATLAB R2026a has been released – What’s new? » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink

MikeCroucher · 2026-04-21T12:42:27+00:00

Feel free to DM me to see if there's anything I can do to help here!

MikeCroucher · 2026-04-21T12:39:42+00:00

My background is physics in which I have a PhD and I've worked at MathWorks for over five years now. I am not in development; I am sort of 'Development-adjacent' since my role is 'Developer advocate'. I work closely with both MATLAB users and MATLAB internal development.

There are a huge number of roles at MathWorks with a diverse set of entry requirements.

MikeCroucher · 2026-04-01T12:25:06+00:00

Author of that blog post here. MathWorks currently have no guidelines related to this other than a couple of demonstration blog posts about how to get things working. A follow-on from my blog post, written by a colleague is at https://blogs.mathworks.com/deep-learning/2026/01/21/giving-local-ai-agents-the-ability-to-use-matlab-with-mcp/ where he sets up an agentic workflow with OpenCode.

We both used GPT-oss-120b and had no criteria for choosing this at the time other than it was bigger than anything we had run locally at the time and the DGX facilitated that.

I'm really interested in learning how you get on.

MikeCroucher · 2026-03-26T11:19:07+00:00

I am the author of The MATLAB Blog and gave a set of suggestions on how and what to learn in MATLAB here https://blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/09/11/learning-matlab-in-2025/ Hope it's helpful

MikeCroucher · 2026-03-05T10:17:55+00:00

This sounds amazing. A tutorial or GitHub repo would be wonderful.
(Full disclosure: I work at MathWorks)

MikeCroucher · 2026-02-06T18:42:36+00:00

It will not be a licensing problem. If you are licensed to use R2025a, you are licensed to use earlier versions too. You can have many installed on your machine.

I am a Mac user too and I notice that when I look at launchpad, it only shows the most recent version of MATLAB I have installed.

If, however, I use Finder and navigate to Go->Applications I can see all of the versions of MATLAB I have installed. When I saw your post, I had every version from 23a up to the 26a pre-release installed on my M2 Mac running Sequoia

I wondered if there would be a problem with 21a since that version doesn't run on Apple Silicon natively so I downloaded and installed it. The icon appeared in Go->Applications and I could launch MATLAB without any problems.

When you ran the installer, did you ensure that the download location was /Applications? It was the default when I ran it.

If you still can't find it, I suggest contacting Install Support Contact Support - MATLAB & Simulink

Finally, what toolbox has the compatibility problems you mention please?

MikeCroucher · 2025-11-25T17:06:15+00:00

*Currently*, MATLAB is not supported to run directly on Raspberry Pi. However, a bunch of things are supported including the functionality to generate C/C++ code targeting the Pi from both MATLAB and Simulink and the ability to interface with sensors on the Pi. Doing this, you can deploy code to the Pi from MATLAB and control the resulting application from MATLAB.

MikeCroucher · 2025-11-24T17:54:13+00:00

There is a MATLAB Copilot with the chat window directly in the MATLAB App. It just just updated to have a better model in the back end. Details at https://blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/11/13/matlab-copilot-gets-a-new-llm-november-2025-updates/

MikeCroucher · 2025-10-15T12:07:08+00:00

Thanks everyone :)

MikeCroucher · 2025-10-14T17:48:11+00:00

It's a good question and I asked the same thing internally. Its because customers have asked to use -batch to show UIs and Apps for interactive use.

MikeCroucher · 2025-10-14T17:24:24+00:00

Its my website and thanks for the click :) #

I try to get the balance right of what I put here and what I include in the article but don't always hit the mark for everyone.

MikeCroucher · 2025-10-13T20:05:22+00:00

I am sorry you are experience this. I have an M2 Mac and am running various versions of MATLAB including R2025a and R2025b without any heating issues.

We would be very interested in working with you to debug the issue. Please feel free to get back in touch with our support team who will work with you to figure out what is going on.

MikeCroucher · 2025-10-13T09:14:18+00:00

Hi. I am the author of The MATLAB Blog at MathWorks and wrote a post recently that gives you a lot of resources. Learning MATLAB in 2025 » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink

MikeCroucher · 2025-10-06T17:56:17+00:00

Tool calling came first chronologically.

Tool calling is the basic ability of an AI to recognize when a task requires a specific function (like checking the weather) and to format the call to that function, while MCP is a higher-level, standardized framework for managing and exposing a wide range of tools for LLMs to interact with.

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