Kong not too long ago unveiled a group 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 purpose of this launch is to reinforce developer productiveness by simplifying the mixing strategy of LLMs into numerous merchandise. It ensures a safe, compliant, and controllable atmosphere for AI requests inside organizations.

“Right this moment marks a major 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 functions quicker. On the identical time, we’re offering governance and visibility to all of the AI site 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 through the “ai-proxy” plugin allows the incorporation of a number of LLMs, comparable to these provided by OpenAI, Azure AI, and others, offering a unified interface that permits builders to change between fashions with out altering their software code. It additionally simplifies the administration of AI credentials by centralizing them throughout the Kong Gateway. This strategy enhances safety by abstracting credential administration away from functions, enabling simpler credential rotation and updates, in accordance 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 assist 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, largely the “ai-request-transformer” and “ai-response-transformer,” empower customers to inject AI capabilities straight 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 accredited templates with no need to change software code. The “ai-prompt-decorator” and “ai-prompt-guard” plugins present mechanisms for making certain that AI prompts are each according to organizational insurance policies and guarded in opposition to unauthorized or delicate content material.