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TechCrunch has published a regularly updated AI glossary providing plain-English definitions of key artificial intelligence terms. The glossary covers essential concepts including AGI, AI agents, API endpoints, chain-of-thought reasoning, coding agents, compute, deep learning, diffusion, distillation, fine-tuning, GANs, hallucination, inference, LLMs, memory caching, MCP, Mixture of Experts, neural networks, open source, parallelization, RAMageddon, recursive self-improvement, reinforcement learning, tokens, training, transfer learning, validation loss, and model weights. Aimed at builders, investors, and general tech readers, the resource is designed to demystify rapidly evolving AI terminology and serves as a living document updated as the field progresses.
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