Introduction to AI APIs

AI APIs let your apps think.

Just like you use Google Maps API to add maps, or Stripe API to accept payments, you can use AI APIs to add intelligence to your applications.

**What AI APIs can do:** - 💬 Have conversations (chatbots, assistants) - ✍️ Generate text (emails, summaries, creative writing) - 🔍 Understand text (sentiment, classification, extraction) - 🖼️ Describe images (what's in this photo?) - 🌐 Translate languages - 💻 Write and explain code

**The big three AI providers:** 1. **Anthropic** — Claude (you're using it now!) 2. **OpenAI** — GPT-4, ChatGPT 3. **Google** — Gemini

**Why learn multiple?** - Different strengths (Claude excels at reasoning, GPT at creativity, Gemini at multimodal) - Pricing varies significantly - Redundancy if one goes down - Some tasks work better with specific models