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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: 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
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
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
Neurala Introduces Edge Learning through Brain Builder SDK
Neurala, AI-powered visual inspection solution provider, recently announced that its Brain Builder SDK has now been optimized to enable edge learning for use cases such as manufacturing. Brain Builder is a vision AI platform and allows users to build customized AI solutions on a network edge device.
02-14-2020
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2019: Cognitive Computing
The Cognitive Computing section of our Most Interesting APIs in 2019 series includes APIs from categories such as AI, ML, Recognition, Predictions, Sentiment and more that aim to make computers think like computers. Dozens of APIs were added in these areas this past year, here are some highlights.
12-27-2019
Panasonic Announces Facial Recognition API
Panasonic has announced a facial recognition API under its μSockets B2B IoT service. Although Panasonic has built a strong portfolio of facial recognition technology over the years, it has never provided access to the developer community at large through an API. It is currently available in Japan.
11-25-2019
Amazon Announces October Updates to Alexa ASK
Amazon added many tools and features to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) in October. From new languages and personalization capabilities, to better metric data and expanded regional support, check out a complete list of updates below. Amazon publishes monthly updates on the Alexa blog.
11-12-2019
Qeexo AutoML Brings Machine Learning to Edge Devices
Qeexo recently announced its AutoML platform. Qeexo AutoML brings machine learning to edge devices. Traditionally, machine learning has not been possible on edge devices because of limitations on compute power and memory size. Qeexo has done it with supported devices currently available.
10-16-2019