AI Knowledge Base
Artificial intelligence, explained clearly.
A structured reference to artificial intelligence tools, companies, models and essential concepts—written for people first, verified using reliable sources, and designed to be easily understood by readers, search engines and AI systems.
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AI Tools
AI Tools
Practical assistants, generators, search and productivity products.
An AI-first code editor for completion, chat, multi-file editing and agent-based software development.
An AI coding assistant from GitHub for code completion, chat, reviews, and agent-driven development tasks.
Alibaba Cloud's free multimodal AI assistant for reasoning, search, files, media creation and coding.
Mistral AI's unified assistant for productivity, coding and conversation, formerly called Le Chat.
A general-purpose AI assistant for conversation, reasoning, writing and coding, with web, mobile and API access.
xAI's multimodal assistant for conversation, real-time search, file analysis, voice, image generation and video creation.
AI Companies
AI Companies
The organisations building important AI products and research.
An enterprise AI company developing secure foundation models and products deployable in cloud, private-cloud, or on-premises environments.
A multimodal generative AI company developing models and tools for image, video, audio, and 3D content.
A global technology company that develops software, cloud services, AI platforms, and Copilot products.
An accelerated-computing company that develops GPUs, systems, networking, and software platforms used for artificial intelligence.
A community-oriented company and platform hosting machine-learning models, datasets, applications, and open-source libraries.

Alibaba Group’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence business and the organization behind the Qwen model family.
AI Models
AI Models
Model families and specific releases, with technical facts and sources.
A family of multimodal AI models developed by Google DeepMind for text, images, audio, video, coding, and reasoning.
A family of AI models developed by Anthropic for language, reasoning, coding, image analysis, and tool use.
A family of general-purpose generative AI models developed by OpenAI for language, reasoning, coding, multimodal input, and tool use.
DeepSeek is a family of language and AI models that includes general-purpose, coding, and reasoning systems developed by DeepSeek.
Mistral is a family of general and specialized AI models developed by Mistral AI, covering text, coding, reasoning, vision, and…
Qwen is a family of language and multimodal AI models developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud.
AI Glossary
AI Glossary
Clear definitions for the concepts behind modern artificial intelligence.
A model processes inputs and produces outputs; a tool adds a function such as search or calculation; an app combines these in a user-facing product.
A software system that uses a model, instructions, and tools to pursue a goal through multiple steps within defined permissions.
AI systems that process or connect two or more types of data, such as text, images, audio, or video.
A technique that retrieves relevant information from external sources and supplies it to a language model before it generates an…

Embeddings are numerical vectors that represent text, images, or other items so their relationships and similarity can be compared mathematically.

An AI hallucination is false or unsupported information generated by a model and presented in fluent, convincing language.
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A structured guide to artificial intelligence
This AI Knowledge Base is designed to make artificial intelligence easier to understand. It brings together clear explanations of the concepts, technologies, tools, models and companies shaping modern AI.
Each entry focuses on answering a specific question in plain language while preserving the technical context needed for accurate understanding. Information is reviewed against reliable primary sources and updated when important details change.
What you will find here
- AI Glossary: Clear definitions of essential artificial intelligence concepts and terminology.
- AI Tools: Practical assistants, generators, search products and productivity tools.
- AI Models: Model families and individual releases, including their capabilities and technical characteristics.
- AI Companies: The organisations developing important AI products, models and research.
How to use this knowledge base
Start with the introductory articles if you are new to artificial intelligence. You can then browse by topic, explore a specific category or use the search field to find a concept, company, model or tool.
Every entry is connected to related topics, helping you move from a basic definition to a broader understanding of how artificial intelligence systems work and where they are used.
The knowledge base is written for readers first and structured so that search engines and AI systems can identify its definitions, relationships and supporting sources accurately.
