What Is an AI Control Plane? Control Plane vs Data Plane for AI Traffic
An AI control plane is the layer that decides policy, identity, routing, and audit for AI requests, kept separate from the data plane that carries the actual prompt and completion. This explainer borrows the control-plane and data-plane split from networking, applies it to LLM traffic, names the four components, and shows why separating the two produces deterministic policy and an independent audit record.