French startup Eden AI has raised a $1.6 million pre-seed spherical (€1.5 million) to construct a programming interface that allows you to entry AI engines from a number of distributors. The corporate unifies these APIs and presents a easy strategy to attempt them out, and blend and match.
Over the previous few years, small and enormous cloud distributors have been constructing APIs that magically course of information of their cloud infrastructure utilizing machine studying fashions. As an illustration, you need to use these APIs to detect and extract textual content from pictures, acknowledge objects, extract key phrases from a block of textual content, flip speech into textual content, translate textual content and extra.
And but, all these APIs aren’t completely equal. Some APIs are higher than others. Some APIs work properly in a single language however not so properly in one other language. Some APIs are simpler to make use of and implement as properly.
Eden AI is constructing the API to rule all of them. “We began as a consulting agency specialised in information science and AI,” co-founder and CEO Taha Zemmouri instructed me. “As consultants, we couldn’t straight suggest the perfect mannequin as we needed to take a look at them first,” he added later.
The startup has established 20 partnerships with AI engine suppliers, equivalent to Mindee, Dataleon, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Rev.AI, Speechmatics and Lettria. It is usually suitable with huge cloud suppliers, equivalent to Amazon Net Providers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
“Now we have created an overlay that acts as a single entry level. Switching to a different supplier is as straightforward as altering a parameter within the API,” Zemmouri mentioned.
As pricing evolves, Eden AI additionally presents some flexibility as you’re now not locked in with a single cloud vendor. On the billing facet, you don’t need to open a consumer account with every supplier. As an alternative, your Eden AI account permits you to entry all these APIs.
If you have already got an account on a particular cloud, you may as well add your personal key to make use of your personal account. Eden AI doesn’t cost greater than what you’d get from cloud distributors. The startup takes a minimize on the supplier facet.
Up subsequent, the corporate needs to routinely choose the best API on your wants. At the moment, shoppers need to outline the supplier of their API calls. However you could possibly think about a function that lets Eden AI decide the perfect route for you.
Supported by Paris-based accelerator 50 Companions, the corporate has raised its pre-seed spherical from a number of enterprise angels, equivalent to Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia), Sébastien Pahl (Docker), Julien Lemoine (Algolia), Benjamin Fabre (DataDome), Laurent Letourmy (Ysance), Jean-Baptiste Aviat (Sqreen), Georges Gomes (Div Riots) and Thomas Grange (Botify).
