The Control Layer: Why Agentic AI Frameworks Are the Next Big Thing
The biggest battle in AI right now isn’t about which model is most powerful. It’s about who controls the layer between models and the real world. This is the control layer — the orchestration and management tier of agentic AI that routes tasks, governs agent behavior, manages state, and connects models to tools, data, and each other. And every major tech company is racing to own it. What the Control Layer Actually Is Think of it like this: large language models are powerful engines, but they don’t drive themselves. To do useful work at scale, you need infrastructure that: ...