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Generative AI
Models that create new text, images, audio, video, or code by learning patterns in data.
Definition
Generative AI refers to models that create new content — text, images, audio, video, or code — by learning the patterns of their training data and then sampling from them given a prompt. Large language models and diffusion-based image generators are the most visible examples. Generative AI drove the major wave of mainstream AI adoption that began in 2022.