The AI Gateway Pattern for Enterprises
An Emerging Beachhead to Enterprise AI Adoption
If you’ve been in enterprise AI sales calls lately, you may have heard of the term AI Gateway. The first “Gen AI” gateways in enterprise emerged around late Q1 2023 and is now increasingly adopted as of Q4 2023. Here are some publicly announced ones (still early):
AI Gateway for MLflow (07/25/2023)
Cloudflare AI Gateway (09/27/2023)
In this post, I will go over:
a brief history (year to date) of Gen AI adoption at the largest enterprises (Fortune 500), in order to motivate the Generative AI Gateway (“AI Gateway”).
what AI Gateway is, its key benefits, and intended customer profiles
a potential opportunity for startups to sell AI Gateway as a managed service / or solution, both from offensive and defensive strategy angles.