The APIs that have been powering websites and apps created a massive market, *but* there are only up to 8 billion humans consuming them behind pixels. As LLMs are taking over the world — in the form of productized agents first — there will be 100X more machines than humans.
The internet built for agents will look very different.
Agents don't need to see, scroll, and click graphical interfaces. They can access the internet programmatically. Every company, before becoming an AI company, will become an API company. All around, above, and under us are APIs.
This new world will generate an amount of API and AI traffic (tokens) that we can't even comprehend now. Tokens will produce all software revenue in the future. We're already seeing it in our user base. The spike of traffic going through our API, Event, and AI Gateways is insane. We are starting to count in quadrillions. Hypervolumes.
There will be dozens of different new protocols for agents to talk to each other. Powered by programming interfaces, whether it's MCP, A2A, CLIs, or more. Nations will trade via APIs over stablecoins, agents will exchange labor via calls, machines are APIs, and APIs become machines.
The GUI Era will slowly fade. The Programmable Era will explode. [The Age of AI Connectivity](https://konghq.com/blog/news/the-age-of-ai-connectivity)The Age of AI Connectivity has just begun.
Preventing runaway spending is critical, but it’s only part of the challenge. Enterprises also need to continuously improve the economics of their AI workloads. Kong combines cost visibility and governance with capabilities designed to reduce unnece
Enterprise AI has moved from pilots to production faster than most governance programs could keep up. Agents now run across every major cloud and model provider, built by central teams, business units, and developers alike. Each one reasons with mod
That's a wrap on API + AI Summit 2026, Kong's biggest in-person event yet. The event brought together more than 1,000 engineers, architects, and leaders in Los Angeles to discuss running AI systems in production, tackle shared architecture challen
We're thrilled to announce that Kong, the AI connectivity company, has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management for the seventh year in a row. Plus, Kong was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis
