Definition
AI tech stack
The combined software, hardware, and compute that supports an AI product end to end, from data and training to deployment and monitoring.
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AI MemoryA new category of products that store human thoughts, moments, and context in a way AI can later organize, search, and analyze.AI nativeAn organization designed around AI agents from the start, rather than adding AI to existing processes.AI safetyThe field focused on keeping AI systems reliable and preventing them from causing harm, especially as they get more powerful and widely used.AI slopLow-effort, mass-produced AI content with little story or craft.AI WinterPeriod of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence.AI wrapperA thin product that is mostly a call to a model like ChatGPT, with little defensible logic of its own. Competitors can replicate it within a month because there is nothing beneath the API call.AlgorithmA set of step-by-step instructions for solving a problem or completing a task, a bit like a recipe.Algorithmic monocultureWhen many organizations rely on the same or very similar models, algorithms, or training data, so they all share the same blind spots and failures.