The API Playbook for AI by Shin Wee Chuang (PAND AI)

The API Playbook for AI
Shin Wee Chuang, Founder & CEO at pand.ai

apidays Singapore 2025
Where APIs Meet AI: Building Tomorrow's Intelligent Ecosystems
Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre
April 15 & 16, 2025

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Transcript

1. The API Playbook for AI CHUANG, Shin Wee CEO, PAND.AI
2. About the speaker Founder and CEO, Pand.ai Previously Head of Digital Banking, Standard Chartered Bank (China) Prior experience in: Citi, UBS, Microsoft and Creative Technology MIT Engineer; Wharton MBA Vice-President, AI & Robotics Chapter @ Singapore Computer Society 1
3. 2 We build AI/GenAI solutions for a living for more than 8 years We were established in 2016 in Singapore and in 2018, Malaysia 75% of our clients are large enterprises like banks and insurance companies We are ISO27001 & OSPAR-certified, and conduct VAPT/statutory audit yearly Singapore’s 1st AI Insurance Broker licensed by MAS Pand.ai builds custom AI solutions for enterprises
4. We serve many local and international blue-chip companies in Southeast Asia 3
5. Building an AI Chatbot used to take months 4 Gather Data Restructure Data Design Solution Coding Testing Launch
6. Then LLM arrives… 5 Gather Data Write System Prompt Launch You can build an AI Chatbots in days
7. 2023 2024 2025 Nov Mar Jul Sep Dec Mar Jul Sep Dec Feb Apr Jun Aug Ma r Feb Apr Jan GPT3.5 GPT4 Claude 2 Llama 2 Mistral 7B Gemini Gemini 1.5 Mistral Large Claude 3 Opus Llama 3 Phi-3 Claude 3.5 Sonnet Qwen-2 Llama 3.1 Grok 2 Command R Qwen-2.5 GPTo1 Gemini 2.0 Llama 3.3 GPTo3 Deepseek V3 Amazon Nova Deepseek R1 Qwen-2.5 Max Amazon Titan Text G1 Phi-4 Gemini 2.0 Pro GPT4.5 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Grok-3 Mistral Small v3.1 QwQ-32B Command A Hunyuan T1 Gemma 3 Llama 4 Gemini 2.5 Pro
8. 7 Your next AI application risks becoming a lettuce
9. The PAND.AI API Playbook 8
10. Play #1: De-couple Logic from Model 9 Logic Model
11. Play #2: Make LLM pluggable 10
12. Play #3: Use RAG, not fine-tuning 11
13. Play #4: Create or use tools 12
14. A future-proof API-driven Architecture 13 API Message Messaging channels Channel adapter Pre & Post processing module LLM RAG Agent/Host Tools API API API API
15. shin@pand.ai Email www.pand.ai Website 80 Robinson Road, #08-01, Singapore 068898 Office