AI Glossary
Clear definitions for AI models, tools, concepts, and frameworks.
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Agent Teams
conceptsWhat are agent teams? Multi-agent architectures where specialized AI agents collaborate on complex tasks.
Agentic
conceptsWhat is agentic AI? Systems that autonomously plan, decide, and act to complete multi-step tasks.
Agentic Coding
techniquesWhat is agentic coding? A development paradigm where AI agents autonomously plan and execute multi-step programming tasks.
AI Regulation
conceptsWhat is AI regulation? Government and institutional frameworks governing the development and deployment of artificial intelligence.
AI Safety
conceptsWhat is AI safety? The field dedicated to ensuring AI systems behave reliably and align with human values.
Amazon
frameworksWhat is Amazon? The tech giant behind AWS, Bedrock, and major AI infrastructure investments.
Anthropic
modelsWhat is Anthropic? The AI safety company behind Claude, focused on building reliable and interpretable AI systems.
Apple
toolsWhat is Apple's role in AI? Overview of Apple's machine learning strategy, on-device models, and Apple Intelligence.
Autonomous Weapons
conceptsWhat are autonomous weapons? AI-powered military systems that select and engage targets without direct human control.
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ChatGPT
toolsWhat is ChatGPT? OpenAI's conversational AI assistant built on the GPT family of large language models.
Claude
modelsWhat is Claude? Anthropic's family of large language models built for safety and helpfulness.
Claude Code
toolsWhat is Claude Code? Anthropic's agentic coding tool that operates directly in your terminal.
Claude Desktop
toolsWhat is Claude Desktop? Anthropic's desktop app for interacting with Claude across documents, images, and agentic workflows.
CLAUDE.md
toolsWhat is CLAUDE.md? A project-level instruction file that gives Claude Code persistent context about your codebase.
Codex
modelsWhat is Codex? OpenAI's code-generation AI model powering GitHub Copilot and developer tools.
Copilot
toolsWhat is a copilot? An AI assistant that works alongside developers to suggest code, answer questions, and accelerate workflows.
Cursor
toolsWhat is Cursor? An AI-powered code editor built as a VS Code fork with integrated LLM assistance.
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DeepMind
modelsWhat is DeepMind? Google's AI research lab behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini.
DeepSeek
modelsWhat is DeepSeek? A Chinese AI lab building high-performance open-weight language models.
Diffusers
frameworksWhat is Diffusers? Hugging Face's open-source library for diffusion-based generative models.
DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)
techniquesWhat is DPO? A reinforcement learning alternative that aligns LLMs with human preferences using a simple classification loss.
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Gemini
modelsWhat is Gemini? Google's multimodal AI model family powering search, coding, and enterprise tools.
GitHub Copilot
toolsWhat is GitHub Copilot? GitHub's AI-powered coding assistant that suggests code inline across major IDEs.
What is Google? The tech giant behind Gemini, DeepMind, and major AI infrastructure.
Google DeepMind
modelsWhat is Google DeepMind? Google's primary AI research lab behind Gemini, AlphaFold, and foundational advances in deep learning.
GPT-2
modelsWhat is GPT-2? OpenAI's 1.5B parameter language model that demonstrated the power of unsupervised text generation.
GPT-5.4
modelsWhat is GPT-5.4? OpenAI's latest flagship large language model in the GPT series.
GPT-5.4
modelsWhat is GPT-5.4? OpenAI's latest large language model in the GPT-5 series.
Grammarly
toolsWhat is Grammarly? AI-powered writing assistant for grammar, clarity, and tone across platforms.
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MCP (Model Context Protocol)
frameworksWhat is MCP? An open protocol that connects AI models to external tools, data sources, and services.
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
frameworksWhat is MCP? The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources.
Meta
modelsWhat is Meta? The tech company behind LLaMA, open-weight AI models, and the Metaverse vision.
Microsoft
frameworksWhat is Microsoft? The tech giant behind Azure AI, Copilot, and a major OpenAI investor shaping the AI industry.
Multi-Agent Systems
conceptsWhat are multi-agent systems? Architectures where multiple AI agents collaborate to solve complex tasks.
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Ollama
toolsWhat is Ollama? An open-source tool for running large language models locally on your own hardware.
Open-Weight Models
modelsWhat are open-weight models? AI models with publicly released weights that anyone can download, run, and fine-tune.
OpenAI
frameworksWhat is OpenAI? The AI research company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the DALL-E image generation models.
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Qualcomm
frameworksWhat is Qualcomm? The chipmaker bringing on-device AI to smartphones, PCs, and edge devices via its Snapdragon NPUs.
Qwen
modelsWhat is Qwen? Alibaba Cloud's open-weight large language model family for text, code, and multimodal tasks.
Qwen 3.5
modelsWhat is Qwen 3.5? Alibaba Cloud's latest large language model in the Qwen series.
Qwen3
modelsWhat is Qwen3? Alibaba Cloud's open-weight large language model series with dense and mixture-of-experts variants.
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RAG
techniquesWhat is RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation combines LLM reasoning with external knowledge retrieval for accurate, grounded responses.
Reinforcement Learning
techniquesWhat is reinforcement learning? A training paradigm where AI agents learn optimal behavior through trial-and-error interactions with an environment.
RLHF
techniquesWhat is RLHF? Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback aligns AI models with human preferences.
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Tool Use
conceptsWhat is tool use? How AI models call external functions to take actions beyond text generation.
Transformers
conceptsWhat are Transformers? The neural network architecture behind modern LLMs and AI systems.
Triton
frameworksWhat is Triton? An open-source language for writing GPU kernels without low-level CUDA expertise.