AI Gateway
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Rauch: Vercel AI Gateway is growing exponentially
“We're launching a new product or we launched, which is already kind of growing sort of exponentially. It's called the AI gateway.”
Enterprises will abstract LLM management into a unified AI gateway layer
“The same thing I think is going to happen in LLMs. At first, you have one enterprise use one big LLMs. Now they're going to use five, 1000, small LLM, medium, large, whatever. Once you get to, you don't do tokens re-limiting, token authentication in each LLM u…”
Agarwal: AI gateways act as operational platforms offering governance beyond basic proxies
“So I think AI gateways are essentially the operational platforms that enable teams to connect to LLMs more efficiently. They help you improve cost, performance, and accuracy by not having you to build individual connections to all of these different AI service…”
Agarwal: Gateway-based guardrails reduce latency versus application-level checks
“And again, you can decrease latency massively by building this on the gateway. Rather than building this within your application.”
Agarwal: AI production will require operational tools just like DevOps enabled cloud
“The more they want platforms like this, and I feel this is similar to what happened with the cloud era back in 2012. You will not have cloud adoption till the time DevOps did not take off, and companies like Datadog, Cloudflare, et cetera, didn't help you buil…”
Brady: Centralized AI gateways restrict Elicit's model and prompt experimentation
“For illicit where really the secret source of the real secret source is which models we're using, how we're using them, how we're combining them, how we're thinking about the user problem, how we're thinking about all these pieces coming together. You really n…”