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Inside an AI Gateway: 7 Cross-Cutting Concerns That Don't Belong in Your App Code Pull up the source of any production AI feature shipped in 2026 and you'll find the same mess. An OpenAI client wrapped in a try/except. A hardcoded retry. An if model ...

LLM API spending nearly doubled from $3.5 billion to $8.4 billion between late 2024 and mid-2025. If you are running any AI feature in production, tokens are your largest line item. The good news: published research from Microsoft, Google, and academ...
