French startup Eden AI sits at the heart of AI’s proliferation problem. Developers face hundreds of models from dozens of providers. Switching means rewriting code. Costs spiral. Downtime hits hard. Eden AI fixes that with a single API overlay. Integrate once. Access over 500 models across LLMs, vision, speech-to-text, OCR, translation. Providers include Google, AWS, OpenAI, Mistral, and specialists like Deepgram or Mindee. Eden AI’s site boasts 99.99% uptime via smart routing and fallbacks. Pick models by cost, latency, or region. No vendor lock-in. It started simply. Founders Taha Zemmouri and team ran a data science consultancy. Clients demanded the best model for each task. But testing meant juggling APIs. “We couldn’t directly recommend the best model as we had to test them first,” Zemmouri told TechCrunch in 2022. They built an overlay. One entry point. Change providers? Tweak a parameter. Early traction came fast.…