Whatever you do please don't use Asp.net AJAX . It's bloated and Microsoft has favoured jQuery ever since. Asp.net AJAX has been written to fast switch WebForms to modern AJAX applications.
But we all know that was more or less a huge failure. MVC on the other hand is a web platform built on top of HTTP and with HTTP in its mind. Writing stateless pages using either everyday HTTP requests or AJAX ones makes it equally simple.
There's no need to use something bloated that was written for WebForms and not MVC.
When you set up a new MVC project you get jQuery included in the base setup. All client side data validation in MVC3 (I guess the same is true for MVC4) is based on jQuery Validate. Without jQuery you would loose a major functionality for any forms for user input.
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