[New!] Box AI API and Developer Zone public beta

Olga Stefaniuk
Box Developer Blog
Published in
3 min readMay 2, 2024

Explore our technical solutions with a new experience: Box AI Developer Zone. See the art of possible with our Box AI API, now in public beta!

Box AI API

The Box AI API will extend Box AI capabilities to power third-party and custom apps. The Box AI API supports Q&A within single and multiple documents, summarization, and text generation. The Box AI API is available to all Enterprise Plus customers and a public beta feature, which means the available capabilities may change. To learn and start implementing solutions visit developer resources:

API reference page

Box Developer Documentation page, the API reference view, featuring the Box AI API

Developer guide

Box Developer Guides featuring Box AI API

Box AI works in a number of languages including English, Japanese, French, Spanish, and many more. However, the underlying models are primarily trained on English language documents. This means that prompts in other languages may return answers of lower quality than in English. Tests have shown satisfactory results for summarizing, checking grammar and spelling, and answering questions, but bear in mind that the results may be different than in English.

Box AI Developer Zone

Alongside with the Box AI API a new developer documentation demo page was launched. Box AI Dev Zone allows you to explore the Box AI API through rich, interactive experiences. You can view use cases, example prompts and responses, and sample code.

Box AI in the Content Preview UI Element

The document summary use case allows you to generate different types of document summaries with various file types.

Document summary, AI Developer Zone demo page

Additional resources

On our Box Developer Blog Rui Barbosa has published a sneak peek of the Box AI API and Python workshop with complete code samples. Explore these additional resources to get up and running with Box AI API.

Box AI for UI Elements

Another new powerful feature is Box AI in the Content Preview UI Element. Thanks to this functionality end users can ask questions of documents directly within custom applications. Check out how to embed the Box Preview UI Element and include the Box AI to your projects.

Box AI in the Content Preview UI Element

Box AI for Metadata API

Box AI for Metadata API is also coming soon. Within our Box AI Dev Zone you can already explore common use cases and see the API in action. Additionally, check what’s the art of possible by reading Rui Barbosa blog post on that topic:

Be sure to check the metadata suggestions demo in our new Box AI Dev Zone!

Metadata extraction, AI Developer Zone demo page

Learn from Box Platform champions! 🦄

In case of any questions related to Box AI API, visit the Box Developer Community for support and knowledge sharing.

Cheers!

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