- Chunking
Chunking, in the context of AI search, means splitting long documents into smaller passages, called chunks, that a system stores, searches …
- Grounding
Grounding in AI means tying a language model's answer to external, checkable sources instead of relying on training data alone.
- Grounding page
A grounding page is a web page that states verifiable facts about one entity, such as a company, person or product, in plain language and …
- Grounding with Google Search
Grounding with Google Search is a tool in the Gemini API.
- LLM web search
LLM web search is a tool function that lets a large language model run web searches while it answers a request, read the results, and cite …
- Query fan-out
Query fan-out is a technique used in AI search in which the system breaks one question into several related sub-queries and runs them at …
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a method in which a language model retrieves relevant information from an external source before …
- Vector database
A vector database stores embeddings, the number vectors that represent the meaning of text, images or audio, and retrieves the entries …
- Vector search
Vector search finds similar items by representing text, images or audio as vectors, called embeddings, and comparing the distance between …