Long Context
The ability of an AI model to process very large inputs — 100K to 1M+ tokens — in a single request. Enables analyzing entire codebases, books, or document sets at once without chunking or summarization.
Why it matters
Early models could only "see" a few pages at once, so you had to chop up long documents and lose the big picture. Long context lets a model read an entire book, a full contract, or a whole codebase in one go, keeping track of details across all of it. That means fewer errors from missing information and far less manual splitting and stitching on your end.
In practice
A lawyer pastes a 300-page merger agreement into a long-context model and asks, "Where does this contradict the earlier confidentiality clause?" Because the model holds the whole document at once, it can spot a conflict between page 12 and page 240, something that would be easy to miss reading in chunks. The answer arrives in seconds instead of days of manual cross-referencing.
Related terms
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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.
API (Application Programming Interface)
A way for software applications to communicate with each other. AI APIs let developers integrate AI capabilities into their own applications programmatically.
Attention Mechanism
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Diffusion Model
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Distillation
A technique where a smaller 'student' model learns to replicate the behavior of a larger 'teacher' model. Produces compact models that retain most of the teacher's capability while being faster, cheaper, and deployable on smaller devices.