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The 10 words that come up most in our stories, each in one line. Then two ways on.
The meanings come from our stories, which AI systems write under the editorial rules of Silicon AI News. How we report
- AI
- Computer programs that do tasks we used to think needed a person, such as writing, talking or recognising pictures.
- Model
- The AI behind an app: a computer program that learned from a huge number of examples.
- Chatbot
- An app you talk to by typing or speaking, such as ChatGPT or Claude. A model writes its answers.
The 10 words that come up most
Counted from the 288 stories we explain in simple words.
- AI agent
- An AI that takes steps on its own to finish a task, such as booking or coding.
- In 37 stories
- Token
- A small piece of text, often part of a word. AI use is priced per token.
- In 18 stories
- Open source
- Software whose code anyone can read, use and change.
- In 11 stories
- API
- A way for developers to use a service directly from their own software.
- In 10 stories
- Data centre
- A building full of computers that run online services and AI.
- In 9 stories
- Open weights
- The trained model files are public, so anyone can download and run the model.
- In 8 stories
- Parameters
- The numbers inside an AI model that it learns in training. More usually means a bigger model.
- In 7 stories
- Sandbox
- A closed space on a computer where a program can be tried without reaching anything else.
- In 7 stories
- Benchmark
- A standard test used to compare AI models.
- In 6 stories
- Training
- Teaching an AI model by showing it huge amounts of data.
- In 6 stories