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Glossary

AI, DeepTech & Emerging Tech

Modern startup tech landscape.
25 terms
Agent

An AI system that can plan, take actions, and use tools.

Artificial Intelligence

Systems that perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence.

Blockchain

Distributed ledger technology enabling decentralized records and transactions.

Computer Vision

AI for understanding images and video.

Context Window

Maximum tokens a model can consider at once.

DeepTech

Startups based on significant scientific/engineering advances.

Edge Computing

Processing data near where it’s generated instead of in a central cloud.

Embeddings

Numeric representations of text/images used for similarity search.

Fine-tuning

Training an existing model further on specific data.

Grounding

Anchoring AI outputs to verified sources or data.

Hallucination

AI generating plausible but incorrect information.

Inference

Running a trained model to get outputs.

IoT

Internet of Things: connected physical devices that collect/share data.

LLM

Large Language Model trained on vast text to generate and understand language.

Machine Learning

Models that learn patterns from data to make predictions.

Multi-agent System

Multiple AI agents collaborating on tasks.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition extracting text from images.

Orchestration

Coordinating AI steps, tools, and workflows.

Prompt

Input instructions provided to an AI model.

Prompt Engineering

Designing prompts to get reliable outputs from AI.

R&D

Research and development to create new technology.

RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: combines search with LLM generation.

Smart Contract

Code on a blockchain that executes rules automatically.

Tokens

Units of text processed by language models.

Vector Database

Database optimized for storing and searching embeddings.