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Technology & AI glossary
Plain-language definitions to help you read vendor proposals and compare companies.
- AI Agent
- A system that uses a language model to plan and take actions, such as calling tools or APIs, to complete a task with limited human supervision.
- Computer Vision
- The field of AI concerned with interpreting images and video, used in inspection, document processing and identity checks.
- Headless Commerce
- An e-commerce architecture where the storefront is separate from the commerce back-end and connected through APIs.
- Infrastructure as Code
- Managing cloud infrastructure through version-controlled configuration files rather than manual changes.
- Laravel
- A PHP web framework known for clear syntax and a rich ecosystem for building business applications and APIs.
- LLM (Large Language Model)
- A machine-learning model trained on large amounts of text that can generate and understand language. LLMs power chat assistants, summarisation and document automation.
- MLOps
- Practices for deploying, monitoring and maintaining machine-learning models in production.
- NLP (Natural Language Processing)
- Techniques for analysing and generating human language, including classification, extraction and translation.
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- A technique where a language model is given relevant documents retrieved from a knowledge base at query time, improving accuracy and letting answers cite sources.
- Vector Database
- A database optimised for storing and searching embeddings, numerical representations of text or images used for semantic search and retrieval.