API pricing is important for developers and businesses alike, as it shapes strategic decisions and resource allocation. As APIs are integral to AI App developers’ frameworks , cost-value alignment in pricing ensures informed choices for organizations and customers alike, preventing unexpected financial hurdles. For AI-based API products like the ChatGPT API, pricing models must offer clarity and flexibility.

2024 is going to be an important transition year for artificial intelligence. 2023 was the public debut of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), a year of amazement, excitement, occasional panic and, yes, more than a little bit of hype. The year ahead is when businesses begin to make the promise of advanced artificial intelligence real, and we’ll begin seeing the effects on how we work and live.

In one of our recent blog posts, about six key predictions for Enterprise AI in 2024, we noted that while businesses will know which use cases they want to test, they likely won’t know which ones will deliver ROI against their AI and ML investments. That’s problematic, because in our first survey this year, we found that 57% of respondents’ boards expect a double-digit increase in revenue from AI/ML investments in the coming fiscal year, while 37% expect a single-digit increase.

Stepping into the world of Apache Kafka® can feel a bit daunting at first. I know this firsthand—while I have a background in real-time messaging systems, shifting into Kafka’s terminology and concepts seemed dense and complex. There’s a wealth of information out there, and it’s sometimes difficult to find the best (and, ideally, free) resources.

The greater tech community was front row for a high-stakes corporate saga this past weekend, complete with more plot twists than the Succession series finale.

In Swift there are 3 primary types of collections to store your data in a structured way, namely: In this article we aim to give you an overview of each. Specifically we want to show how they’re declared, illustrate the most common operations of each, provide comparisons between them where applicable and highlight the various performance considerations.

Closures provide a powerful, flexible way for iOS developers to define and use functions in Swift, replacing the blocks used in its predecessor Objective-C. They provide self-contained modules of functionality that you can move around in your code, similar to the lambdas found in other programming languages. Crucially, closures can capture and store references to any constants and variables from the context in which they’re defined.