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Turning words, images, and products into numbers AI can compare by meaning.
Make an LLM answer from your data, not its training memory.
The open standard that lets AI agents plug into tools and data.
A vector database stores embeddings and finds the most similar ones to a query in milliseconds — the retrieval engine behind semantic search and RAG.
Agentic AI is when a model stops answering and starts acting — planning steps, calling tools, and looping until a goal is done, not just producing text.
The transformer is the architecture under every modern LLM. Its key idea, attention, lets the model weigh which other words matter most when interpreting each word.
Prompting shapes AI behavior with instructions at run time; fine-tuning changes the model itself by training it on your own examples.
A context window is the amount of text an AI model can 'see' and remember at once, and it quietly limits what the model can actually do for you.
Semantic search finds results based on meaning and intent rather than exact keyword matches, making it better at answering real questions.
Hallucination is when AI makes up false information; grounding is how you anchor its answers to real, verifiable data.
AI evals are structured tests that measure whether a model does what you need it to do, safely and consistently, before and after it ships.
Prompt engineering is the practice of writing clear instructions to get useful, reliable output from an AI model.
AI governance is the set of rules, roles, and reviews that keep AI systems safe, legal, and aligned with business goals before they cause damage.
Edge inference runs trained AI models on local devices instead of the cloud, cutting latency and data costs for real-time decisions.
Multimodal AI understands and combines different types of input—text, images, audio, video—instead of handling just one at a time.
A plain-language guide to what large language models are, how they work, and why they matter for anyone running a business.
RLHF is the training method that teaches AI models to give answers humans actually prefer, not just statistically likely ones.
Tokens are the chunks of text AI models actually read and bill for, and tokenization is the process of breaking language into those chunks.
A knowledge graph maps entities and their relationships so systems can reason about connections, not just match keywords.
AI guardrails are the rules, checks, and limits that keep an AI system from producing harmful, biased, or off-brand outputs.
Function calling lets an AI model trigger real software actions instead of just generating text, turning it from a chatbot into a system that can act.
A prompting method that asks an AI to show its reasoning step by step, often improving accuracy on complex tasks.
Mixture of Experts is an AI model design that activates only a small part of a large network for each task, cutting compute costs without cutting capability.
Model quantization shrinks AI models by using less-precise numbers, cutting cost and latency with a small, usually manageable, accuracy trade-off.
Model distillation trains a smaller, cheaper AI model to mimic a larger one, keeping most of the performance at a fraction of the cost.
Synthetic data is computer-generated information used to train AI models when real data is scarce, sensitive, or expensive to collect.
Diffusion models generate images, audio, and video by learning to reverse a process of adding noise, one step at a time.
AI orchestration coordinates multiple AI models, agents, and tools so they work together on a task instead of running in isolation.