Discover the future of intelligent API traffic management. Learn how AI-powered gateways enable smarter routing, adaptive security, and real-time decision-making to optimize and secure API ecosystems.
The excitement around large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI is justified. These systems can summarize, generate, reason, and even take actions across APIs — all with minimal human input. However, as enterprises race to integrate LLMs into real-world workflows — especially when those…
Organizations are going all-in on large language models (LLMs), with research finding 72% anticipate increased LLM spending in the coming year (and about 40% are already investing more than $250,000 USD per year). As enterprises rapidly adopt LLMs to transform customer experiences, automate…
Disruptive businesses are understandably rushing to deploy AI-native applications alongside traditional API infrastructure. However, managing observability across both domains (API and AI) while keeping a tab on performance visibility and operational control remains a pressing challenge. AI…
In this post, Kong Champion Sachin Ghumbre shares his journey of transforming a complex GenAI application from a state of operational challenges to streamlined control. Discover how Kong AI Gateway provided the enterprise-grade governance needed to secure, optimize, and scale his GenAI solution,…
As enterprises increasingly embed AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) into their digital experiences, enforcing robust AI guardrails becomes paramount to safeguard users, protect data, manage operational costs, and comply with regulatory and ethical standards. Think of AI guardrails as essential…
The explosion of AI-native applications is upon us. With each new week, massive innovations are being made in how AI-centric applications are being built. There are a variety of tools developers need to consider, be it supplying live contextual data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or…
Today, I'm excited to announce one of our largest Kong AI Gateway releases (3.11), which ships with several new features critical in building modern and reliable AI agents in production. We strongly recommend updating to this version to get access to the latest and greatest that AI infrastructure…
We’re excited to announce Kong's unified API lifecycle management platform. Kong Konnect, our cloud API platform, can now manage services from API gateway, Ingress, and service mesh with a hosted control plane that can be implemented across any cloud provider, Kubernetes distribution, or…
In this post, we’ll see how ChatGPT can be used to reinvigorate APIs by creating an OpenAPI specification for an existing API that has existing documentation. ChatGPT , developed by OpenAI , has generated attention for its natural language processing capabilities. ChatGPT is based on machine…
Today I’m excited to announce that Kong has released six new open source AI plugins in Kong Gateway 3.6 that turn every Kong Gateway deployment into an AI Gateway . These new plugins are available today and are entirely free and open source for everyone. The six new plugins are AI Proxy, AI…
We're introducing several new Kong AI Gateway capabilities in Kong Gateway 3.7 and Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.7, including enterprise-only and OSS improvements. Read on for a full rundown of the new AI-focused features. With the new Kong Gateway 3.7 release , we're promoting Kong AI Gateway to GA…
What do developers really think about artificial intelligence (AI)? To many, AI is synonymous with innovation. While some noisy naysayers on the sidelines may cry the promise of generative AI (GenAI) is overhyped, the reality experienced by actual developers and leaders in the digital trenches…
We’re pleased to announce the new LLM Usage reporting feature in Advanced Analytics, which aims to help organizations better manage their large language model (LLM) usage. This feature offers insights into token consumption, costs, and latency, allowing businesses to optimize their AI investments.…
Today at API Summit , we're introducing one of the biggest new releases of our AI Gateway technology : a new class of intelligent semantic plugins, new advanced load balancing capabilities for LLMs, and the official support for AWS Bedrock and GCP Vertex, in addition to all the other supported LLM…
Multimodal AI is a critical player in the new wave of artificial intelligence. By combining different types of data like text, images, and audio, multimodal AI creates more intuitive and versatile AI systems that can more closely mimic human decision-making. Whether it’s for a virtual healthcare…