Kong not too long ago unveiled a set of six open-source AI plugins for its Kong Gateway 3.6, which provide integration with a number of LLMs and considerably advance AI know-how accessibility for builders and platform groups.

In accordance with Kong, the aim of this launch is to reinforce developer productiveness by simplifying the mixing technique of LLMs into varied merchandise. It ensures a safe, compliant, and controllable atmosphere for AI requests inside organizations.

“At the moment marks a big milestone in our journey in the direction of democratizing AI for builders and enterprises worldwide. By open-sourcing this suite of revolutionary AI capabilities, together with no-code AI plugins, we’re eradicating the limitations to AI adoption and making it attainable for builders to leverage a number of LLMs effortlessly and ship AI-powered purposes quicker. On the similar time, we’re offering governance and visibility to all of the AI visitors that’s being generated by a company,“ stated Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong Inc. 

Kong’s introduction of AI capabilities into its Kong Gateway by way of the “ai-proxy” plugin allows the incorporation of a number of LLMs, equivalent to these provided by OpenAI, Azure AI, and others, offering a unified interface that permits builders to modify between fashions with out altering their software code. It additionally simplifies the administration of AI credentials by centralizing them inside the Kong Gateway. This method enhances safety by abstracting credential administration away from purposes, enabling simpler credential rotation and updates, in line with Kong.

The “ai-proxy” plugin extends its performance into the realm of analytics by enabling the gathering of detailed Layer 7 AI metrics,which incorporates monitoring request and response token counts, and utilization knowledge throughout completely different LLM suppliers and fashions. With help for integration with analytics platforms like Datadog and New Relic, alongside Kong Gateway’s native logging plugins, builders acquire precious insights into the utilization patterns of their AI integrations. 

Moreover, the introduction of no-code AI integration plugins, principally the “ai-request-transformer” and “ai-response-transformer,” empower customers to inject AI capabilities immediately into API requests and responses, enabling functionalities like real-time API response translation for broader internationalization efforts with out the necessity for coding.

Kong additionally launched plugins focusing on the creation, ornament, and governance of AI prompts. The “ai-prompt-template” plugin permits for the centralized administration of immediate templates, enabling swift updates and compliance with accepted templates without having to switch software code. The “ai-prompt-decorator” and “ai-prompt-guard” plugins present mechanisms for making certain that AI prompts are each in line with organizational insurance policies and guarded in opposition to unauthorized or delicate content material.