Vercel has rolled out the AI Gateway for production workloads. The service provides a single API endpoint for accessing a wide range of large language and generative models, aiming to simplify integration and management for developers. The AI Gateway allows applications to send inference requests to multiple model providers through one endpoint. It supports bring-your-own-key authentication, which means developers can use their own API keys from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google without paying an additional token markup.
A new kind of traffic is quietly exploding: autonomous AI agents calling APIs and services on their own. Large language model ( LLM) "agents" can plan tasks, chain tool usage, fetch data, and even spin up subtasks - all via outbound requests that traditional infrastructure isn't watching. This agent-driven outbound traffic (let's call it agentic traffic) is the missing layer in today's AI infrastructure.