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.
So much has changed since our co-founders Augusto "Aghi" Marietti and Marco Palladino first started building a company back in Milan in 2009. We were the API connectivity company. But today, we're the AI connectivity company In order to make pe
Multi-agent workflows live and die on context. Every agent-to-agent call and every agent-to-tool call is either a retrieval — fetching information the agent needs — or a mutation — changing state that downstream agents will depend on. At prototype s
Multi-agent systems are, at their core, context distribution systems. Every agent in your workflow is a consumer and producer of context. The interesting architectural questions are all about how that context moves. Two operations drive everything:
An AI agent isn't magic. It's a reasoning engine that makes decisions based on what it knows at a given moment. That "what it knows" is its context — the information available to it right now. Context is everything. Give an agent the wrong context,
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