APIs: The key to AI and application connectivity

The application programming interface (API)landscape in most organizations is complex. The organizational use and development of APIs are rapidly growing and will not slow down anytime soon. API usage was already on track to continue increasing before the widespread understanding and adoption of AI technologies accelerated—and now their use will grow at an unprecedented scale. AI adoption, including generative AI(GenAI), will be another consumption point for APIs but at a potentially larger scale, as APIs are invoked to enable AI components such as AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation.