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This page is a glossary of abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms used throughout artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Acronyms
Acronyms is a practical glossary of abbreviations, shortened names, and recurring initialisms used across artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, robotics, data systems, and adjacent fields.
Agent planning
Agent planning refers to the process by which an AI agent determines a sequence of actions to accomplish a goal.
Agentic AI
Agentic AI is an umbrella term for artificial intelligence systems that pursue a user-specified objective through a sequence of decisions and actions.
Agentic Context Engineering
Agentic Context Engineering (ACE) is a framework for scalable and efficient context adaptation in large language models (LLMs) that lets an AI system improve itself by treating its own context as an evolving
Agentic workflow
An agentic workflow is a multi-step process in which one or more AI agents independently plan a sequence of actions, select and use tools, evaluate intermediate results, and iterate until a goal is reached.
AlphaCode
AlphaCode is an artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind that generates computer programs capable of solving competitive programming problems at a human-competitive level
AlphaFold
AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind that predicts the three-dimensional structure of a protein directly from its amino acid sequence.
AlphaGo
AlphaGo is a computer program developed by DeepMind that plays the board game Go, and it was the first artificial intelligence to defeat a professional human Go player on a full 19x19 board without a handicap.
AlphaStar
AlphaStar is an artificial intelligence system built by Google DeepMind that in 2019 became the first AI to reach Grandmaster level in the real-time strategy game StarCraft II
AlphaZero
AlphaZero is a general-purpose reinforcement learning algorithm developed by DeepMind that taught itself to play chess, shogi (Japanese chess), and Go at a superhuman level from scratch, using only the rules…
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, accessible through a single unified API, so…
Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova is a family of foundation models developed by Amazon and offered through Amazon Bedrock, announced on December 3, 2024, at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.
Amazon Q
Amazon Q is a family of generative AI-powered assistants from Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced on November 28, 2023, at the AWS re:Invent conference and made generally available on April 30, 2024.
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng is a British-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who is one of the most influential figures in modern artificial intelligence, best known for co-founding Google Brain and Coursera, serving…
Anthropic
Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other former OpenAI researchers, best known for the Claude family of large…
Apache MXNet
Apache MXNet (pronounced "mix-net") was an open-source deep learning framework that combined imperative and symbolic execution in one runtime, created around 2015 by the DMLC (Distributed Machine Learning…
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is Apple's personal intelligence system, a suite of generative AI features built into iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro that combines on-device machine learning models…
Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a proposed form of artificial intelligence with broad, adaptable competence across many cognitive tasks, including tasks that were not anticipated during development.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science dedicated to creating systems that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, recognizing patterns…
Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Plugins
Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Plugins were a meta category of third party tools inside ChatGPT that helped users find, build, prompt, or orchestrate other artificial intelligence products.
Artificial intelligence in China
Artificial intelligence in China is the research, development, deployment, and state governance of artificial intelligence within the People's Republic of China, the world's second largest national AI…
Artificial intelligence terms
This glossary defines 171 common artificial intelligence terms across 11 categories: foundational concepts, models and architectures, training and adaptation, prompting and interaction, AI agents and…
Autonomous driving
Autonomous driving is the sustained performance by a vehicle system of part or all of the dynamic driving task.
Autonomous vehicle
An autonomous vehicle, also known as a self-driving car, driverless car, or robotic vehicle, is a vehicle that uses artificial intelligence, sensors, and software to navigate and operate without human input.
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft's enterprise cloud offering that delivers OpenAI's frontier large language models and generative artificial intelligence through the Microsoft Azure platform, pairing models…
BLOOM (language model)
BLOOM (BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model) is a 176-billion-parameter open-access large language model released on July 12, 2022, and was the first language model with more…
Backdooring LLMs
Backdooring a large language model (LLM) means secretly implanting a hidden behavior into the model during training, fine-tuning, or weight editing so that it behaves normally on ordinary inputs but produces…
Blog posts
Blog posts have shaped how the public, researchers, and policymakers understand artificial intelligence.
Books
This page is the AI Wiki index of books about artificial intelligence, organised by type.
CFIUS
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee of the US government that reviews foreign investment in American businesses and real estate for national security…
Canva AI
Canva AI is the suite of artificial intelligence features built into Canva, the Australian online design platform, centered on the Magic Studio toolkit launched on October 4, 2023 and reorganized in 2025-2026…
Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems is an American artificial intelligence hardware company that builds wafer-scale processors for AI training and inference
Character.AI
Character.AI (stylized as character.ai or c.ai) is an AI chatbot platform that lets users create and converse with virtual characters powered by large language models, founded in November 2021 by former Google…
Claude Artifacts
Claude Artifacts is an interactive content creation feature in Claude, the AI assistant developed by Anthropic, that opens a dedicated workspace window beside the chat to render and iterate on substantial…
Claude Cowork
Claude Cowork is an autonomous AI agent developed by Anthropic that runs inside the Claude desktop app and completes multi-step knowledge work, such as organizing files, preparing documents, and synthesizing…
Claude Science
Claude Science is an artificial intelligence research workbench released by Anthropic on June 30, 2026.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a multimodal large language model (LLM) developed by Anthropic and released on September 29, 2025, which Anthropic described at launch as "the best coding model in the world." It is a…
Cognitive robotics
Cognitive robotics is the subfield of robotics and artificial intelligence concerned with endowing robots with higher-level cognitive capabilities: perception, attention, memory, reasoning, knowledge…
Commonsense reasoning
Commonsense reasoning is the ability to make the everyday, mostly tacit assumptions that ordinary humans take for granted, the implicit knowledge about how the physical world behaves, how minds work, how time…
Compound AI System
A compound AI system is an AI system that achieves its objectives by combining multiple interacting components, such as large language models, retrieval mechanisms, external tools, guardrails, and…
Computer Vision
Computer vision is the study of computational methods that extract, estimate, or generate useful representations from visual measurements.
Computer use
Computer use is the capability of artificial intelligence models to control computers by viewing screens and performing mouse and keyboard actions, much like a human user would.
Computer-use agent
A computer-use agent (CUA) is a category of AI agent in artificial intelligence that performs tasks by directly operating a general-purpose computer's graphical user interface (GUI) the way a human does, by…
Connectionism
Connectionism is an approach in cognitive science and artificial intelligence that explains mental phenomena as the collective behavior of large networks of simple, interconnected processing units.
Context engineering
Context engineering is the practice of designing, building, and optimizing the full set of information that a large language model receives in its context window at inference time
Context window
A context window is the finite token sequence that a language model can process for one invocation.
Cortical Labs
Cortical Labs is a Melbourne biotechnology company that develops experimental biological-computing systems.
Cursor (code editor)
Cursor is a proprietary AI-assisted code editor and software-development platform made by Anysphere.
Cursor Rules
Cursor Rules are persistent natural-language instructions that steer the AI agent inside Cursor, the AI-powered code editor built by Anysphere.
Cyc
Cyc (pronounced "psyche", from "encyclopedia") is a long-running symbolic AI project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of common-sense facts and reasoning rules, encoded by hand…
DBSCAN
DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) is a density-based clustering algorithm that groups together points packed closely in feature space and labels points in low-density regions…
DENDRAL
DENDRAL was a computer program built at Stanford University to help organic chemists work out the molecular structure of unknown compounds from their mass spectra.
Dark Factory
A dark factory, also called a lights-out factory, is a manufacturing or logistics facility that runs production with little or no human presence on the floor.
Dartmouth Conference
The Dartmouth Conference, formally the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, was a roughly six to eight week workshop held in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New…
Data labeling
Data labeling (also called data annotation) is the process of attaching meaningful tags, labels, or metadata to raw data so that machine learning algorithms can learn from it.
Databricks
Databricks is an American enterprise software company that provides a unified data analytics and artificial intelligence platform built around the data lakehouse architecture.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue was a chess-playing supercomputer built by IBM that, on May 11, 1997, became the first machine to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a full match under standard tournament time controls
Deep Learning
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks with multiple layers to automatically learn representations of data at multiple levels of abstraction
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company based in Hangzhou. It was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, who had previously co-founded the quantitative investment firm High-Flyer.