AI Glossary

AI terms explained

Clear, practical definitions of artificial intelligence concepts. From RAG and LLMs to embeddings and vector databases—understand the technology powering modern AI systems.

Marketing

AEO (AI Engine Optimization)

Optimizing content to be discovered and cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI.

AI Architecture

AI Agent

An autonomous AI system that can perceive its environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve goals.

AI Architecture

AI Orchestration

Coordinating multiple AI models, tools, and services to work together in complex workflows.

Search Technology

AI-Native Search

Search platforms built from the ground up with AI, delivering direct answers instead of links.

AI Fundamentals

Context Window

The maximum amount of text an AI model can process in a single request, measured in tokens.

AI Fundamentals

Embeddings

Numerical representations of text, images, or other data that capture semantic meaning in a format AI can process.

AI Training

Few-shot Learning

Teaching an AI model new tasks by providing just a few examples in the prompt.

AI Training

Fine-tuning

The process of further training an AI model on specific data to improve performance for particular tasks.

AI Operations

Inference

The process of running a trained AI model to generate predictions or outputs from new input data.

Data Infrastructure

Knowledge Graph

A structured representation of real-world entities and their relationships, enabling intelligent information retrieval.

AI Models

LLM (Large Language Model)

An AI model trained on massive text datasets that can understand and generate human-like text.

Software Architecture

Multi-tenant SaaS

Software architecture where a single application serves multiple customers while keeping their data separate.

AI Fundamentals

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

The field of AI that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

AI Practice

Prompt Engineering

The practice of designing effective instructions for AI models to produce desired outputs.

AI Architecture

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

An AI architecture that combines information retrieval with text generation to produce accurate, context-aware responses.

AI Architecture

Retrieval System

A system that finds and returns relevant information from a knowledge base in response to queries.

Search Technology

Semantic Search

Search technology that understands the meaning and intent behind queries, not just keyword matching.

AI Fundamentals

Token

The basic unit of text that AI models process, roughly equivalent to 4 characters or 0.75 words.

Data Infrastructure

Vector Database

A database optimized for storing and searching high-dimensional vectors, enabling semantic search and AI applications.

AI Training

Zero-shot Learning

An AI model's ability to perform tasks it wasn't explicitly trained on, without examples.

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