Portkey defines itself as a company that provides a control plane for production AI deployments. This month, the company launched its newly unified Portkey Gateway service and made it fully open-source.
Like any gateway technology at this level (such as an API gateway), this branded product acts as a control plane to manage and monitor AI model traffic and agent behavior, while also enforcing policy controls across the infrastructure on which agents run.
A kick in the aaS for SaaS?
In terms of why the push to open source matters…

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