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How Tailscale built a customer-facing model router on AI Gateway
This is infrastructure maturing in real time. Tailscale's approach to model routing via network identity is clever, but the real shift is that AI Gateway is now good enough for companies to ship it to paying customers. For builders: if you're routing models inside products and worried about API key management, this is proof the infrastructure is ready. For infrastructure teams: this is what the next layer looks like: model access as identity, not keys.