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1. What is API
API allows different software applications to communicate with each other. This enables developers to leverage partials of infrastructure or inner workings from established platforms to integrate advanced functionalities into their applications.
This is the key cornerstone behind many successful SaaS startups – they utilize infrastructure from large providers at lower costs.
2. What is AI API
AI infrastructure provides tools for processing NLP (Natural Language Processing), Image/Video processing, and more.
Natural Language Processing (NLP):
Integrating NLP into applications allows AI to understand/process human language. For example, understanding customer queries and extracting information is possible through NLP (Though two-way conversations require GEN AI – generating content based on learned patterns).
Image/Video Processing
This functionality allows applications to edit images/videos – cropping, converting formats, etc. The combination of this, NLP, and GEN AI enables conversational AI-SaaS for users to edit images/videos.
3. How you can use
You need a key that allows you to access the main server/database. For example, if you have an AI SaaS with OPEN AI integrated, you need this key to access OPEN AI’s infrastructure/database for results that can be used for your SaaS’s output.
So, here is a brief overview of what API is, and what AI API entails.
Future posts will cover actual AI API reviews – comparing functions, costs, and more. Stay tuned!
