API

abbreviation

1. American Petroleum Institute. Also A.P.I.

2. Computers.,  application programming (or program) interface: a set of protocols used by programmers to create applications for a specific operating system or to interface between the different modules of an application.

API

abbreviation

1. application programming interface

Example Sentences

Anthropic leads the enterprise LLM API market with 32% market share and over 300,000 business customers, surpassing OpenAI’s 25% share.

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"While we respect Anthropic's decision to cut off our API access, it's disappointing considering our API remains available to them," they added.

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The most controversial moneymaking decision was CEO Steve Huffman’s plan to charge for access to Reddit’s previously free data API, as a means of restricting the amount of Reddit text that web crawlers from A.I. firms could automatically ingest and use for model training.

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This inspired widespread revolt among Redditors, especially those who’d benefited from no-cost API access for coding mobile apps, user bots, and other extensions to enhance and customize the Reddit experience.

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It says the process of investigating and fixing the API flaw was "extremely open".

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