Generative AI is a transformative technology that many organizations are experimenting with or already using in production to enable rapid innovation and significantly improve productivity. But this breakneck pace of adoption has led to business leaders demanding greater visibility and control over their enterprise use of Generative AI.
When I talk to clients about using GenAI in their organizations, I ask questions like:
- Do you know which third-party AI services are being used within your company and for what purposes?
- What is the cumulative amount your company is paying for LLM subscriptions, including team and individual sign-ups, and is that cost predictable and controllable?
- Does it address common vulnerabilities that arise when invoking LLM, such as sensitive data leakage, unauthorized user access, and policy violations?
With an AI Gateway, all of these questions can be answered.
What is AI Gateway?
The AI Gateway provides a single point of control for organizations to access AI services through public domain APIs, brokering secure connections between various applications and third-party AI APIs inside and outside an organization's infrastructure. It acts as a gatekeeper for the data and instructions flowing between these components. The AI Gateway provides policies to centrally manage and control the use of AI APIs in applications, as well as critical analytics and insights that help expedite decisions regarding LLM selection.
Announcing the AI Gateway for IBM API Connect
Today, IBM is announcing the release of AI Gateway for IBM API Connect, a capability of its market-leading, award-winning API management platform. Generally available by the end of June, this new AI Gateway capability will enable clients to accelerate their AI initiatives. When this capability is released in June, clients will be able to start managing watsonx.ai APIs centrally, with additional LLM APIs expected to be managed later this year.
Key benefits of the AI Gateway for IBM API Connect
- Faster and more responsible adoption of GenAI: Centralized, controllable, self-service access to enterprise AI APIs for developers.
- Insights and Cost Control: Address unexpected or excessive costs for AI services by limiting the rate of requests over a period of time and caching AI responses, and gain visibility into AI API usage across your enterprise with built-in analytics and dashboards.
- Governance and Compliance: By routing LLM API traffic through an AI Gateway, you can centrally manage the use of AI services through policy enforcement, data encryption, sensitive data masking, access controls, audit trails, and more to support compliance obligations.
Take the next step
Visit our webpage or request a live demo to see it in action and learn how you can complement watsonx.ai and watsonx.gov with AI Gateway for IBM API Connect.
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