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What is an API?
An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules that allows different software applications to talk to each other. In this story, DeepSeek offers its AI model's capabilities through an API, letting other developers and businesses integrate DeepSeek's AI into their own products without having to build the AI from scratch.
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