Glossary

Terms

Research AI

A research AI plans a question, gathers sources, and writes a report that cites them.

Deep research

Deep research is a multi-step mode in which an AI plans, searches, reads and writes a long cited report.

Source grounding

Source grounding ties each claim in an answer to a specific document the AI read.

Citation check

A citation check compares each cited claim or figure with the text of its source before the report is delivered.

Context window

The context window is how much text a model can consider at once, measured in tokens.

Research plan

A research plan is the outline of questions and sources an AI intends to use before it starts searching.

Synthesis

Synthesis is the step where an AI combines findings from many sources into one argument or summary.

Benchmark

A benchmark is a fixed set of tasks and scoring rules used to compare tools on the same test.

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