This is a top-level business and technology strategy talk. Instead of just showing how to build an AI API, we'll discuss why and what a company needs to consider.

The Opportunity: Looks at AI models not as internal projects, but as strategic assets that can be productised and monetised through APIs.

The Architecture: High-level patterns for exposing AI—when to use a pre-trained model API (like Gemini) vs. when to fine-tune and host your own.

The Threat: The unique security challenges of AI APIs: prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion attacks, and the massive cost implications of abuse. It's not just about a standard 403 Forbidden error anymore.