— AI Glossary
Every AI term that matters, in plain English.
93 definitions across models, tools, techniques, and concepts — written for practitioners who want to understand AI deeply enough to ship with it.
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Concepts
Academic AI
The research-led path: studying ML theory, model architecture, and pure science.
Concepts
Agentic AI
AI systems that plan, decide, and act on multi-step goals with minimal human oversight.
Concepts
AI Agent
An AI system that decides its own next action and takes multi-step actions autonomously.
Concepts
AI Automation
Wiring AI into multi-step workflows so they run without human intervention.
Career
AI Bootcamp
Intensive short-format AI programmes — 5 days to 12 weeks — for working professionals.
Career
AI Content Marketing
Producing high-volume, brand-consistent content at scale using LLMs and structured workflows.
Career
AI Course (Online)
Self-paced or live online AI training — quality varies wildly; outcomes depend on shipping.
Career
AI Engineer
A new professional role: shipping AI products by composing models, prompts, tools, and APIs.
Concepts
AI Evaluation (Eval)
The discipline of measuring whether an AI system is actually doing the job correctly.
Career
AI Jobs (India)
The fastest-growing job category in India 2026 — AI engineers, prompt engineers, AI marketers.
Career
AI Marketing
Using AI tools to plan, create, target, and measure marketing — the dominant marketer skillset of 2026.
Concepts
AI Orchestration
Coordinating multiple AI calls, tools, and decisions into a single workflow.
Career
AI Performance Marketing
Using AI to test, target, and optimise paid ad campaigns — Meta Advantage+, Google PMax, Smartly.
India
AI Policy (India)
India's evolving AI regulation — the 2026 IndiaAI Governance Guidelines + DPDPA interplay.
Career
AI Portfolio
A public collection of shipped AI projects — the modern resume for AI roles.
Concepts
AI Search
Search engines that answer questions in natural language with citations.
Career
AI SEO
Optimising for AI search engines and AI Overviews — the new layer above classical SEO.
Concepts
AIOps
Using AI to automate IT operations — incident detection, root-cause analysis, remediation.
Companies
Anthropic
The AI safety company that builds Claude.
Infrastructure
API
An interface for programs to call AI models or services programmatically.
Concepts
Applied AI
The practical use of AI tools to ship products and outcomes.
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Techniques
Chain-of-Thought (CoT)
A prompting technique where you ask the AI to think step-by-step before answering.
Tools
ChatGPT
OpenAI's flagship AI chat product, the most-used LLM globally.
Tools
Claude
Anthropic's family of AI assistants — known for strong reasoning, long context, and code quality.
Models
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic's flagship 2026 reasoning + coding model — 1M-token context, top of the SWE-bench leaderboard.
Models
Claude Sonnet 4.6
The mid-tier 2026 Claude model — fast, cheap, very capable on most production tasks.
Infrastructure
Cloudflare
Edge platform with AI Workers — runs ML models close to your users globally.
Concepts
Context Window
The maximum text an LLM can read in one prompt.
Tools
Cursor
An AI-first code editor — VS Code fork with deep Claude/GPT integration.
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Techniques
Few-Shot Prompting
Showing the AI 2-5 examples of the desired output before asking for a new one.
Techniques
Fine-Tuning
Adjusting a pre-trained AI model on your specific data to change its behaviour.
Concepts
Function Calling
An LLM feature that lets the model invoke your code/APIs in a structured way.
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Tools
Gemini
Google's AI assistant family, deeply integrated with Google Workspace.
Models
Gemini 3
Google's 2026 flagship — 2M-token context, deep Workspace integration, strong on multimodal.
Concepts
Generative AI
Umbrella term for AI that creates new content — text, code, images, audio, video.
Tools
GitHub Copilot
GitHub's AI pair-programmer — AI autocomplete inside any editor.
Concepts
Google AI Overviews
Google's AI-generated answers that appear at the top of search results.
Tools
Google AI Studio
Google's developer playground for testing Gemini and getting API keys.
Companies
Google DeepMind
Google's AI research arm — builds Gemini, AlphaFold, and more.
Models
GPT-5.5
OpenAI's late-2026 flagship — multimodal reasoning, persistent memory, native agent loop.
Tools
Groq
A high-speed AI inference provider — 10x faster than typical APIs.
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Tools
Image Generation
AI models that create images from text prompts — Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, Flux.
India
India AI Mission
₹10,372 crore Indian government programme to build sovereign AI compute, datasets, and skills.
Concepts
Inference
The process of running a trained AI model to get a prediction or output.
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Models
LLM (Large Language Model)
An AI model trained on huge amounts of text that can understand and generate human language.
Techniques
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
An efficient way to fine-tune large models by training only a small set of new parameters.
Tools
Lovable
AI app builder — opinionated full-stack apps with Supabase backend.
Concepts
Low-Code AI
Mostly-visual AI development with thin code escape hatches for power users.
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Tools
Make.com
A visual workflow automation tool — middle ground between Zapier and n8n.
Concepts
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Anthropic's open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data.
Models
Mistral Small 4
Compact European open-weight model — strong on European languages, runs on a single GPU.
Concepts
MLOps
DevOps for machine learning — versioning, deploying, and monitoring AI models in production.
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India
Sarvam AI
Bengaluru-based Indic LLM lab — open-source 105B model, multilingual TTS/STT, India-first.
Techniques
Semantic Search
Search that understands meaning, not just keyword matches.
Concepts
SEO
Search Engine Optimisation — making pages findable on Google, Bing, AI Search.
Tools
Speech-to-Text
AI that transcribes spoken audio into written text — Whisper, AssemblyAI, Deepgram.
Concepts
Structured Output
Forcing an LLM to return JSON / typed data that matches a schema you define.
Tools
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative — Postgres, Auth, Storage, Vector search in one.
Techniques
System Prompt
The hidden instruction that shapes an AI's persona, rules, and behaviour.
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Concepts
Temperature
An LLM setting that controls how 'creative' vs 'focused' outputs are.
Tools
Text-to-Speech
AI that turns text into natural-sounding spoken audio — ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, Sarvam.
Concepts
Tokens
The chunks of text LLMs process — roughly 0.75 words each.
Concepts
Tool Use
An AI's ability to call external tools (APIs, code, search) instead of just generating text.
Techniques
Training Data
The text, images, or examples used to teach an AI model what to do.
Techniques
Tree-of-Thought (ToT)
An advanced reasoning technique where the AI explores multiple reasoning paths.
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Tools
v0 by Vercel
AI UI generator — describe a component, get React + Tailwind code.
Tools
Vector Database
A database optimised for storing and searching embeddings by similarity.
Infrastructure
Vercel
The hosting platform for modern web apps — deploys in seconds.
Concepts
Vibe Coding
Building software by describing what you want in English while AI writes the code.
Tools
Vibe Coding Tools
AI-first IDEs and app builders that turn plain-English prompts into working software.
Tools
Video Generation
AI models that produce video from text or images — Sora, Veo, Runway, Pika.
Concepts
Voice Agent
An AI system you can talk to — combines speech-to-text, an LLM, tool use, and text-to-speech.