Applications
Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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RAG
Searching a corpus for relevant material and pasting it into the prompt so the model can answer from it.
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Chunking
Splitting documents into pieces before embedding them. It is usually the real determinant of retrieval quality.
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Few-shot prompting
Showing a model several worked examples in the prompt so it infers the pattern you want.
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Prompt caching
Reusing the processed form of a repeated prompt prefix so you are not charged full price for it again.
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System prompt
The standing instruction placed before a conversation that sets a model’s role, constraints and format.
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Vector database
A store that indexes embeddings so the nearest ones to a query can be found quickly.
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MCP is donated to the Linux Foundation
The agent-tool standard moves to neutral governance.
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AMD and OpenAI sign a 6-gigawatt partnership
A second supplier is brought into frontier training at scale.
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NVIDIA commits up to $100bn to OpenAI
A chipmaker takes an equity position in its largest customer.
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OpenAI launches a cloud coding agent
Codex runs delegated software tasks in parallel rather than completing lines.
