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Daily API RoundUp: Art Institute of Chicago, Tilisy, WhatPulse, FastBraille
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Images, Engagement and Open Banking. Highlights include an API for data from The Art Institute of Chicago and an API for translating English to Braille. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
02-03-2021
Microsoft Launches Azure Quota API for Service Limit Management
Microsoft has moved the Azure Quota REST API into general availability, allowing developers to utilize the resource to better manage service limits on the platform. In addition to quota management, the API can also be used to request service increases.
01-21-2021
Daily API RoundUp: Particle Health, Find By Plate, Le New Black, Webit
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Auto, Healthcare, and Languages. Highlights include an API that retrieves ancient Greek language data and an API that changes recipes to suit dietary needs. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
12-08-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Portfolio Optimizer, Empath, brighter AI, DefinedCrowd
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Entertainment, Augmented Reality, and Machine Learning. Highlights include an API for retrieving data from the App Store and an API for determining walkability in neighborhoods. Here's a look at what is new.
11-11-2020
API Businesses Don't Deserve to Exist Unless They Aggregate
Startup API businesses don’t deserve to exist unless they aggregate. They can gain advantage by aggregating datasets or uses of data. The opportunities to aggregate across big players are highly contested, but there is a new area to gain advantage: Data, and especially data with machine learning.
09-01-2020
AIH Technology Announces Inclusive Facial Recognition API
AIH Technology has announced a new inclusive Facial Recognition as a Service API. The company’s facial recognition algorithm is designed to be ethnicity neutral which many facial recognition providers have failed to accomplish. The API is currently available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
08-11-2020
Google Adds Digital Ink Recognition to ML Kit
Just a month after announcing changes to ML Kit, Google’s machine learning toolkit for mobile application development, that were designed to simplify the developer experience, Google is again adding new features. This week’s announcement is the addition of Digital Ink Recognition.
08-07-2020
Microsoft Adds Text Analytics for Health Preview to Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft has expanded Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics. Text Analytics for Health allows users to extract and analyze unstructured medical data. Microsoft trained the engine with a broad range of medical data sets including clinical notes, clinical trials protocols, and more.
07-08-2020
Google Simplifies ML Kit SDK, Adds APIs
Google has made a standalone version of its Machine Learning Kit SDK available to developers, allowing them to create AI-assisted apps directly on devices. The big change includes two new APIs that make it possible to create web-connected ML Kit apps without requiring Firebase.
06-24-2020
Daily API RoundUp: QuadPay, Precognitive, Coralogix, ZenSports
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Payments, Cryptocurrency and Machine Learning. Highlights include the LunarCRUSH API which provides trend analysis about cryptocurrency and the QuadPay API for splitting payments into four installments.
06-23-2020
How to Programmatically Translate Your App or Website with APIs
Localizing an application opens your reachable market to additional audiences on the other side of current language barriers. In this article, we'll show you how to get started with Google's Cloud Translation API so you can add language auto-translation capabilities to apps and websites.
06-18-2020
OpenAI Announces API Access to New AI Models
OpenAI has announced an API for accessing new AI models it develops. The new API takes a different approach from typical AI systems. Most AI systems are designed for specific use cases. OpenAI considers its offering a "general-purpose" AI system provided by a "text in, text out interface."
06-12-2020
TensorFlow Adds QAT API to Optimization Toolkit
TensorFlow has added the Quantization Aware Training (QAT) API to its TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit. QAT allows developers to train and deploy models in a manner that leverages both quantization and accuracy. Information loss typically associated with quantization is carved out as noise.
04-10-2020
Google Beta Releases Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
Google has beta released its new Cloud AI Platform Pipelines. It allows developers to deploy robust, repeatable ML pipelines that include monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility. Google has specifically designed the offering to be enterprise-ready, simple to install, and secure.
03-16-2020
Google Broadens Cloud Speech-to-Text API Capabilities
The Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API has been updated to include support for seven new languages, additional enhanced telephony models, broader speech adaptation, and more. The improvements to the API serve to improve the availability of Google’s speech recognition technologies across the globe.
03-05-2020
TranslateMe Releases French to English API
TranslateMe, an AI-driven decentralized translation platform, announced the release of a French to English Translation API. TranslateMe uses a block-chain, decentralized model to execute its translation algorithms. The company's algorithm's learned French to English in four days using the network.
03-04-2020
How APIs Will Democratize Access to Low-Cost Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Even with today's open source technologies for applying artificial intelligence and machine learning, there are still some thorny challenges to getting both right. Especially at a reasonable cost to both the pocketbook and the planet. But API-led approaches might be able to ease the pain.
02-25-2020
Google’s Cloud Vision API Removes Gender Labels
The Google Cloud Vision API will no longer provide gender determination as part of its image analysis functionality. The announcement directly affects the ‘LABEL_DETECTION’ function of the API which prior to today would return labels such as ‘woman’ or ‘man’.
02-20-2020
Twilio Study Reveals Erosion Of Consumer Trust in Telephone Infrastucture Due to Robocalls
Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights, ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of AI
02-20-2020
Intellect SEEC Announces Sentiment Analysis API for Financial Services
Intellect SEEC announced today the launch of its Contextual Sentiment API on the AWS marketplace. This API uses Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to provide real-time text analysis and score/measure the contextual emotional response to a product/brand or a service.
02-20-2020