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Async Python for AI: Building High-Concurrency AI Applications

By Codcompass TeamΒ·Β·4 min read

AI API calls are I/O-bound β€” you're waiting on network responses. Async Python lets you run many AI requests concurrently, dramatically improving throughput. Here's how to build high-concurrency AI applications.

Why Async for AI?

A single AI API call might take 1-3 seconds. If you process 100 requests sequentially, that's 100-300 seconds. With async concurrency, you can process all 100 in seconds.

`python
import asyncio
import httpx

Sequential (slow)
async def process_sequential(requests):
results = []
for req in requests:
result = await call_ai(req) # 2 seconds each
results.append(result)
return results
Total: len(requests) Γ— 2 seconds

Concurrent (fast)
async def process_concurrent(requests):
tasks = [call_ai(req) for req in requests]
results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
return results
Total: ~2 seconds total (all run in parallel)
`

Basic Async AI Client

`python
import asyncio
import httpx
from typing import Optional

class AsyncAIClient:
def init(self, apikey: str, baseurl: str = "https://api.ofox.ai/v1"):
self.apikey = apikey
self.baseurl = baseurl
self._client: Optional[httpx.AsyncClient] = None

async def aenter(self):
self._client = httpx.AsyncClient(
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {self.api_key}"},
timeout=120.0
)
return self

async def aexit(self, *args):
if self._client:
await self._client.aclose()

async def chat(self, messages: list[dict], kwargs) -> str:
response = await self._client.post(
f"{self.base_url}/chat/completions",
json={
"model": kwargs.get("model", "claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022"),
"messages": messages,
"maxtokens": kwargs.get("maxtokens", 1024),
"temperature": kwargs.get("temperature", 0.7)
}
)
response.raiseforstatus()
data = response.json()
return data["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]

async def chat_stream(self, messages: list[dict], k

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