Guest
Aghi Marietti
CEO, Kong
Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Aghi Marietti (CEO, Kong) talking, from an interview on MTS published Oct 23, 2026.
What Aghi Marietti said
AI gateways give enterprises a checkpoint to stop agent attacks
“gateways are becoming very strategic because in the code, gateways are like deterministic AI choke points.”
Aghi Marietti4:33 Enterprise AI is spreading across models as token use surges
“we are running about 500 trillion tokens, going to quadrillion soon, because it's growing 140x year over year.”
Aghi Marietti14:26 AI cost controls can tie token budgets to business workflows
“you can then block when the budget gets hit all the way down to individual”
Aghi Marietti17:05 Enterprise AI adoption will arrive in step changes
“They're more like step functions. Like it might take six months to put an AI on a gentle workflow in productions.”
Aghi Marietti21:42
The episode
AI Gateway Token Traffic Growing 140X Year Over Year | Aghi Marietti
Aghi Marietti · CEO, Kong
0:55of 26:54 · Oct 23
