generative AI

American

[jen-er-uh-tiv ey-ahy, -uh-rey-tiv] / ˈdʒɛn ər ə tɪv ˈeɪˈaɪ, -əˌreɪ tɪv /

noun

Computers.

artificial intelligence that is designed to process prompts from users and respond with text, images, audio, or other output that is modeled on a training data set.

Etymology

Origin of generative AI

First recorded in 1990–95

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generative AI

Google Cloud and Accenture are the latest companies to bet that forward-deployed engineers are key to unlocking business value from generative AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

A major turning point for Hugging Face came in 2018, when Google released a new version of its transformer, the neural network technology at the heart of modern generative AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“If the policy is we’re not going to allow students use generative AI for the meantime, then we should publicize that,” Melvoin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nvidia is the key corporation behind the generative AI frenzy that has catapulted it to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Merlin plans to use generative AI, trained on thousands of hours of recorded exchanges, to interpret instructions and respond itself.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

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