Kong, the king of API management, reinforces its platform for AI applications [Video]

API technologies startup Kong Inc. today announced a key update to its flagship platform Kong Konnect, introducing it as a new platform that’s fit for the era of artificial intelligence.

The company explained that companies across the world are racing to adopt AI, and that’s creating a need for a unified and enterprise-grade platform for building, running and governing application programming interfaces and generative AI applications. Kong aims to provide this with Kong Konnect, which it says is a comprehensive platform for managing the entire API lifecycle.

Kong Konnect is an API platform that connects APIs and microservices natively across clouds, Kubernetes environments, data centers and more, using intelligent automation. APIs are the preferred method used by developers for exposing data and services when they build microservices-based applications in software containers that can run in any computing environment.

They provide a simple way to connect different services and applications. As an example, APIs are what makes it possible to …