Stripe for AI: One Platform that Connects to all LLMs

Whenever a new digital technology enters the stage, the same scenario plays out.

1. There are no service providers at all, and — if you want to join the party — you have to deal with the technology directly. As a business that usually means hiring domain experts and engineers, high barrier of entry, high risk, etc., but also IP, competitive advantage, and first-mover advantage.
2. Service providers appear, abstracting away technical challenges and offering convenient access to the technology without the hassle, leaving you with the agony of choice, or with the burden to deal with all of them. That usually also means more competition and lower margins.
3. Finally, a platform emerges that aggregates all the service providers and gives you access to all their products and services through a universal interface. Even more competition and even lower margins.

We all have seen this process unfold many times, with Amazon for online shopping, Netflix for streaming, Stripe for payments, Twilio for messaging, and Alchemy for web3. These service providers are usually referred to as aggregators.

AI is in stage 2 right now (July 2023).

OpenAI was the first player to establish a viable end consumer product (ChatGPT) and onboard a large audience to their product. By offering access to their flagship LLM models via API request to their AI platform, they also opened the door for other companies to build on top of their platform.

And building they did. If you want to get a grasp of how many GPT-powered AI products are already out there, just open one of the gazillion AI app marketplaces or listing sites, e.g.

• futuretools.ai

That was a few month ago. Now, we have the choice between a multiple providers, Bard, Anthropic, Cohere, Hugging Face, and Replicate, just to name a few. It seems like a new AI platform is popping out of the ground every other week, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, each with their own set of features, and each with their own quirks and problems to deal with.

When building an AI-powered product today, you likely want to leverage multiple platforms to get the best performance, or at least experiment with different options to see which one works best for your use case. Chances also are that whatever provider or model you choose today, a better one will likely come around in a couple of weeksk or months.

It's time for stage 3.

Meet PROMPTMETHEUS, a prompt IDE and AI platform aggregator, the "Stripe for AI".

PROMPTMETHEUS

PROMPTMETHEUS is an advanced prompt engineering platform that connects to all major AI platforms and gives you easy access to their language models. The UI is intuitive and you do not need any coding or technical skills to build AI integrations and standalone AI applications. The playground also helps you test and compare different providers directly.

Take a look at the Prompt Engineering IDEs post for a more detailed introduction, or open the playground to give it a spin. It's free!

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