Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI Wins Best AI API Award at API World 2024

NEW YORK CITY – November 6, 2024 - Stack Overflow today announced that its OverflowAPI product has won the 2024 API Award in the Best AI API category. Stack Overflow’s CFO Susan Walker was presented its 2024 API Award on Nov 5 during API World 2024 the world's largest international API & integration conference. The 10th annual API Awards celebrate the incredible technical innovation, reception, and solutions in the global API and software integration industry and use by the global API and integration community.

The API economy has matured extensively over the past decade, and OverflowAPI is helping API & integration professionals and engineers build the future of APIs in the multi-trillion-dollar market for API-driven products and services.

According to Stack Overflow’s 2024 Developer Survey, only 43% of global developers trust the accuracy of AI tools. Enter OverflowAPI, a subscription-based API offering that provides access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset to train and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) with the goal of empowering developers through innovative, socially responsible AI.

With OverflowAPI, LLM and AI-product developers can improve accuracy, product differentiation, and personalization through Stack Overflow’s vast dataset. Providing access to over 58 million human generated questions and answers with feedback signals from users and moderators, OverflowAPI delivers verified technical expertise for our partners to build their products and deliver an elevated experience for their end users. OverflowAPI has now been adopted by some of the world’s largest technology brands who have partnered with Stack Overflow to improve the performance of their LLM models with trusted and accurate data.

Announced earlier this year, Stack Overflow’s framework around socially responsible AI ensures that product partners who engage with OverflowAPI commit to providing attribution to the subject matter experts and community who contributed content and that the highest quality content is driven and vetted by humans. Technical communities and AI can be better together, with feedback from community users fueling innovation and elevating the answers from AI in a virtuous cycle.

"Today’s digital enterprise & consumer apps are increasingly powered by API-centric architecture and platforms. OverflowAPI’s win here at the 2024 API Awards is evidence of their leading role in the growth of the global API ecosystem,” said Jonathan Pasky, Executive Producer & Co-Founder of DevNetwork, producers of the API World conference & the 2024 API Awards.

“Validated sources of data - the very foundation developers build on - are crucial to how we can bridge this growing trust gap in AI solutions,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, Chief Executive Officer at Stack Overflow. “We are entering a new economy where knowledge-as-a-service will power the future. New business models depend on a community of creators that consistently create new and relevant content, and domain-specific, high-quality, and trustworthy data. This era will also rely on ethical, responsible use of data to curate these knowledge bases, and this award is a reflection that the larger industry accepts this and is working with us as we build a new future for the modern Internet.”

API Award winners were selected by the independent, expert-led DevNetwork API Advisory Board, based on criteria including: technical innovation; attracting notable attention and awareness in the API industry; and general regard and use by the API and integration ecosystems and communities.

About Stack Overflow

Across its public and private platforms, Stack Overflow empowers developer communities to discover the information, answers, and learning opportunities they need – when they need them. Millions of the world's developers and technologists visit Stack Overflow to ask questions, learn, and share technical knowledge, making it one of the most popular websites in the world. Stack Overflow’s market-leading knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, helps more than 20,000 organizations distribute knowledge, increase efficiency, and innovate faster.