TechCrunch Explains the Fast-Growing Vocabulary of AI

TechCrunch has assembled plain-language explanations of common AI terms heard in product meetings and investment discussions, including AGI, AI agents, LLMs, RAG and RLHF. The guide is maintained as a living document so it can incorporate new concepts as the field changes quickly. One recent addition, “opaque recurrence,” repeatedly passes a query through internal model layers to improve efficiency but leaves fewer readable reasoning traces, prompting researchers to worry that model oversight could become harder.