AI Orchestration
Coordinating multiple AI models, tools, and data sources in a unified pipeline. An orchestration layer manages prompt routing, context passing, error handling, and output aggregation across different AI services.
Why it matters
Real AI products rarely rely on one model doing one thing. They chain together several models, databases, and tools, and something has to conduct that whole ensemble. Orchestration is that conductor: it decides what runs when, passes information between steps, and handles failures gracefully. Without it, complex AI workflows fall apart the moment one piece returns a bad result or a tool times out.
In practice
A research assistant answers a question by first searching a document store, then feeding the results to one model to summarize, passing that to another model to fact-check, and finally formatting the reply. Orchestration wires these steps together, retries the search if it comes back empty, and makes sure each stage gets exactly the input it needs. The user just sees one clean, reliable answer.
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Distillation
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Embedding
A mathematical representation of text (or images) as a vector of numbers that captures meaning. Similar concepts have similar embeddings, enabling semantic search and clustering.