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Kong is named **a Leader** in *The Forrester Wave: API Management Software, Q3 2026*. APIs used to be about connecting systems to each other. Now they're also how AI agents connect to everything: tools, data, other agents. That shift changes what good API management looks like, and it's where we at Kong have shifted our focus. Forrester's take on where we land.

We said you'd see the evidence quickly.. Here it is. **Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is now generally available**, and it isn't arriving quietly.