Back to basics - a tour of the OpenAI APIs

The OpenAI ecosystem has grown quickly — new models, new capabilities, and new ways to build. But at the heart of it all are a handful of powerful building blocks.

In this meetup, we’ll go back to basics and explore the core OpenAI APIs that power modern AI applications:

• Text & Chat APIs – Build chatbots, assistants, summarizers, and Q&A systems
• Structured Outputs & Code Generation – Generate reliable JSON, automate workflows, and write code
• Image Generation – Create visuals, marketing assets, and design concepts from prompts
• Vision (Multimodal) – Analyze screenshots, documents, and images
• Audio & Speech APIs – Transcribe speech and generate natural-sounding voice output

We’ll walk through practical examples, simple demos, and real-world use cases so you can clearly understand:

• What each API does
• When to use which capability
• How they can be combined into powerful applications