TechnicalAI glossary
API
The "electrical socket" of a service: it lets your app call an AI model remotely and pay per use (by tokens).
In other words
Ordering at a restaurant without going into the kitchen: you place your order, the dish arrives.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Six hundred billion parameters at a dollar per million tokens
StepFun has launched Step 5 Preview, a 600-billion-parameter model with a one-million-token context window, priced at 1 dollar for input. We put that rate into context within the current landscape.
- Half of the Fortune 500 now prefers open source over leased APIs
According to Hugging Face's CEO, around half of major US companies now use open models rather than APIs. We analyse this shift and its three drivers.
- AI models are retiring: what it means when you've built on top of them
Providers regularly retire their older models from the service. We explain why, what it means for those who have built on them, and how to protect yourself.
- What is "prompt caching"? The setting that could halve your AI bill
Prompt caching lets you avoid paying full price for the same context sent with every request. We explain the mechanism, the real savings, the pitfalls of cache lifetime, and why it's the first lever to pull before September's price hikes.
- Today at 5:59 PM, thousands of DeepSeek integrations will stop working.
On 24 July 2026 at 15:59 UTC, DeepSeek permanently removes the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner identifiers from its API. Any request using these names will fail, with no grace period. We explain what needs to change, the hidden pitfall in the migration, and what this deadline says about the growing weight of Chinese models.
- Antigravity 2.0: Google takes on Claude Code and Cursor on their own turf
Antigravity 1.0, launched in November 2025, was a simple editor. Antigravity 2.0, launched on 19 May 2026, is a complete ecosystem for agentic programming: desktop, terminal, SDK, managed API, enterprise. And everything runs on Gemini 3.5 Flash, 4x faster than the competition. Analysis.