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AI

174 researched emerging terms in AI. Sorted by detection date — newest first.

AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Nascent
Intelligent Terminal

Intelligent Terminal is an open-source fork of Windows Terminal that embeds AI coding agents directly into the shell — not as a plugin, but as a first-class pane. Commands that fail surface an agent p…

Emerged · 1d ago View →
AI / Research / Academic Policy
Nascent
Leiden Declaration

The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is a community-initiated statement that defines the core values mathematics must protect as AI reshapes how proofs are produced, attri…

Emerged · 1d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models / Enterprise
Validating
MAI Models

MAI Models is the branded family of foundation models built in-house by [Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai), covering reasoning, coding, image generation, voice synthesis, and transcription. MAI stan…

Emerged · 62d ago View →
AI / Language Models / Enterprise
Nascent
MAI-Thinking-1

MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft's first in-house flagship reasoning model — a 35B active-parameter sparse Mixture of Experts system with a 256k-token context window, trained entirely on 30T tokens of lice…

Emerged · 1d ago View →
AI / Construction Tech / Vertical SaaS
Nascent
Rudus

Rudus is a vertical AI platform that automates takeoff and estimation for concrete subcontractors, using computer vision to detect every concrete element — footings, walls, columns, slabs — from struc…

Emerged · 1d ago View →
AI / Hardware / Developer Workstation
Nascent
Surface RTX Spark Dev Box

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a compact developer workstation from Microsoft, powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, designed to run 120-billion-parameter AI models locally without cloud costs. It de…

Emerged · 1d ago View →
AI / Infrastructure / HPC
Nascent
Expanse

Expanse is an intelligence layer for HPC and GPU clusters that predicts what each workload actually needs before it reaches the scheduler. By reading job source code, submission scripts, and live hard…

Emerged · 2d ago View →
AI / Hardware / Personal Compute
Nascent
NVIDIA RTX Spark

NVIDIA RTX Spark is a Windows superchip fusing a 20-core Arm Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU and 128 GB of unified memory — DGX Spark silicon brought to thin laptops and compact desktops. It delive…

Emerged · 3d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Code Quality
Validating
AISlop

AISlop is a deterministic CLI that scans codebases for the anti-patterns AI coding agents characteristically leave behind — swallowed exceptions, narrative comments, dead helpers, unsafe type casts — …

Emerged · 89d ago View →
AI / Frontier Models / LLMs
Nascent
Claude Opus 4.8

[Claude Opus 4.8](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8) is Anthropic's latest flagship LLM, released May 28, 2026 at unchanged pricing ($5/$25 per million tokens). It improves on Opus 4.7 ac…

Emerged · 6d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Nascent
Dynamic Workflows

Dynamic Workflows is a Claude Code feature that lets Claude orchestrate dozens to hundreds of parallel subagents by writing a JavaScript script that holds the plan itself. The orchestration logic — lo…

Emerged · 6d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Nascent
Ultracode

Ultracode is a named effort level in [Claude Code](https://code.claude.com) that combines `xhigh` reasoning with automatic Dynamic Workflow orchestration. Enabled via `/effort ultracode`, it lets Clau…

Emerged · 6d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Emergent
Antigravity CLI

Antigravity CLI is Google's closed-source, Go-based terminal coding agent launched at Google I/O 2026, replacing the open-source Gemini CLI. It brings the full Antigravity 2.0 agent harness to a light…

Emerged · 15d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Benchmarking
Emergent
DeepSWE

DeepSWE is a contamination-free software engineering benchmark that evaluates AI coding agents on 113 original, long-horizon tasks spanning 91 open-source repositories across TypeScript, Go, Python, J…

Emerged · 8d ago View →
AI / Infrastructure / Hardware
Validating
Vera CPU

Vera CPU is NVIDIA's first custom-designed data center processor, purpose-built for agentic AI and reinforcement learning workloads rather than general-purpose computing. It features 88 NVIDIA-designe…

Emerged · 79d ago View →
AI / Business Tools / Content Creation
Emergent
Acquisition Blueprint

Acquisition Blueprint is one of eight named documents in the AI Business Context Folder framework — a structured file mapping every customer acquisition channel and the complete sales funnel, loaded i…

Emerged · 14d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Validating
agent.email

agent.email is a machine-readable onboarding page that lets any AI agent register its own email inbox without human involvement. An agent hits the signup endpoint via a single curl POST, receives cred…

Emerged · 83d ago View →
AI / Startup Strategy / Founder Resources
Emergent
Anthropic Handbook

The Anthropic Handbook is a 35-page official playbook published by Anthropic on [May 14, 2026](https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook), guiding founders on building AI-native companies. It rema…

Emerged · 20d ago View →
AI / China / Product Strategy
Emergent
Building Doubao

Building Doubao is a reference narrative capturing how ByteDance grew its AI assistant, [Doubao (豆包)](https://doubao.com), from a secretive 2023 Shanghai startup to China's only AI product with 100M+ …

Emerged · 16d ago View →
AI / Gaming / AI-Native Products
Rising
Chongzhen AI Game

Chongzhen AI Game is the English shorthand for [《历史模拟器:崇祯》](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4304230/_/) (History Simulator: Chongzhen), China's first AI-native historical strategy game where a larg…

Emerged · 124d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Orchestration
Validating
Hermes Kanban

Hermes Kanban is the multi-agent task board built into [Hermes Agent](https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent) by Nous Research. It replaces fragile in-process subagent swarms with a durable SQLi…

Emerged · 34d ago View →
AI / Business Tools / Revenue Strategy
Emergent
Money Model Builder

Money Model Builder is a named AI prompt document — one of eight in a business OS template stack — that codifies a company's pricing, offer sequencing, and profit logic into a single AI-readable refer…

Emerged · 12d ago View →
AI / Productivity / Content Creation
Emergent
North Star Brief

North Star Brief is one of eight documents in the AI Business Context Folder framework — a one-page file containing your mission, vision, core values, and operating principles, loaded into an AI syste…

Emerged · 14d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Rising
OpenClaw Skills

OpenClaw Skills is the registry-backed extension system for [OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/): a CLI (`openclaw skills install <slug>`) that discovers, installs, and scopes capability packages from [Cl…

Emerged · 129d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Validating
Remote Workspaces

Remote Workspaces is a developer infrastructure pattern where AI coding agent orchestrators run isolated environments — terminals, file systems, agent sessions — on remote machines or cloud VMs instea…

Emerged · 37d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agentic IDEs
Emergent
Antigravity 2.0

Antigravity 2.0 is Google's agent-first development platform, announced at I/O 2026 on May 19. It expands the original November 2025 IDE into a five-surface suite: standalone desktop app, CLI, SDK, Ma…

Emerged · 15d ago View →
AI / Models / Frontier LLMs
Emergent
Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's frontier multimodal AI model that combines flagship-tier reasoning with Flash-class speed, designed to execute multi-step agentic workflows, complex coding tasks, and long…

Emerged · 15d ago View →
AI / Generative Media / Video
Emergent
Gemini Omni

Gemini Omni is Google's unified multimodal model that fuses reasoning with generative creation — accepting text, image, audio, and video as input and producing video grounded in real-world knowledge. …

Emerged · 15d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Rising
Step Enforcement

Step enforcement is a guardrail mechanism for agentic LLM workflows that detects and corrects a model's failure to execute required steps in the prescribed sequence. It sits inside the agent loop, mon…

Emerged · 107d ago View →
AI / Strategy / Market Analysis
Emergent
AI Eats

"AI Eats" is the shorthand label for Benedict Evans' recurring macro presentation series — [AI Eats the World](https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations) — which maps generative AI's platform-shift dyna…

Emerged · 16d ago View →
AI / Standards & Governance
Rising
Agentic AI Foundation

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a Linux Foundation directed fund that provides neutral, vendor-independent governance for open agentic AI infrastructure — protocols, frameworks, and conventions th…

Emerged · 176d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Multi-Agent Collaboration
Rising
Slock

Slock is an agent-native collaboration workspace where humans and AI coding agents share channels, DMs, and threads as equal teammates rather than tool-callers. Built by Botiverse, Inc., it connects a…

Emerged · 91d ago View →
AI / Software Engineering / Developer Tools
Emergent
Bun's Rust

"Bun's Rust" names the Rust codebase that replaced Bun's original Zig implementation — 1,009,257 lines generated by Anthropic's Claude Code agents in nine days and merged on May 14, 2026. It is distin…

Emerged · 29d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / CLI Agents
Emergent
Zerostack

Zerostack is a minimalistic coding agent written in pure Rust, built around Unix principles of small footprint and composability. At ~8 MB RAM idle and a 8.9 MB binary, it is designed as a drop-in alt…

Emerged · 18d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Emergent
Grok Build

Grok Build is xAI's terminal-native agentic coding CLI for professional software engineering — an AI agent that runs directly in your shell, plans multi-step tasks, writes and edits files, executes co…

Emerged · 20d ago View →
AI / Software Engineering / Developer Tools
Emergent
Rewrite Bun

Rewrite Bun refers to the AI-executed migration of the [Bun](https://bun.sh) JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust — 1,009,257 lines of new code across 6,755 commits, generated almost entirely by Anthro…

Emerged · 29d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Emergent
Ardent

Ardent is a database-branching platform that creates isolated Postgres clones in under six seconds, giving coding agents a production-identical sandbox to test writes without ever touching live data. …

Emerged · 21d ago View →
AI / Productivity / Workspace Automation
Rising
Custom Agents

Custom Agents is a platform feature category — autonomous, user-defined AI teammates that operate on triggers or schedules inside a software product without requiring manual prompting. Each agent is s…

Emerged · 99d ago View →
AI / Finance / Quantitative Investing
Emergent
Stock Factor Skill

A Stock Factor Skill is a packaged AI-agent capability module that wraps quantitative stock-factor analysis — screening, backtesting, and factor mining — into a single installable skill for autonomous…

Emerged · 20d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agents
Validating
Code Agent

A code agent is an AI system that executes software engineering tasks autonomously — reading files, editing code, running tests, and iterating toward a goal without per-step human guidance. Unlike inl…

Emerged · 41d ago View →
AI / Analytics / Developer Tools
Emergent
Generative Data Apps

Generative Data Apps are AI-native dashboards and interactive data applications built from natural language prompts rather than hand-coded components or drag-and-drop builders. The agent generates Jav…

Emerged · 22d ago View →
AI / Frontier Models / AI Safety
Validating
Claude Mythos Preview

Claude Mythos Preview is Anthropic's most capable frontier model, released April 7, 2026 as a gated research preview — not publicly available. It achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified and demonstrates …

Emerged · 57d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Inference Optimization
Emergent
MTP

MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) is an inference acceleration technique that lets a lightweight drafter model predict several future tokens simultaneously, which a larger target model then verifies in a s…

Emerged · 29d ago View →
AI / Interpretability / Safety
Emergent
Natural Language Autoencoders

Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs) are an unsupervised interpretability technique that converts a language model's internal activations into plain-text explanations. An activation verbalizer transla…

Emerged · 27d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Benchmarks
Emergent
ProgramBench

ProgramBench is a software-engineering benchmark that tests whether AI agents can reconstruct a complete, working codebase from only a compiled binary and its documentation — no source code, no decomp…

Emerged · 29d ago View →
AI / Open-Weight Models / Efficient Inference
Emergent
Zaya1-8B

Zaya1-8B is an open-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model from [Zyphra](https://www.zyphra.com/post/zaya1-8b) that activates only 760 million of its 8.4 billion parameters per forward pass, delive…

Emerged · 28d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Data Infrastructure
Emergent
Airbyte Agents

Airbyte Agents is a context layer that gives AI agents unified, search-optimized access to an organization's operational data before the agent ever runs — solving what the company calls the core produ…

Emerged · 29d ago View →
AI / Ethics / Responsible Use
Rising
inverse laws

Inverse laws are three human-conduct principles that mirror-invert Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Where Asimov's laws constrain robot behavior toward human safety, these invert the target: they cons…

Emerged · 142d ago View →
AI / Machine Learning / LLM Architecture
Emergent
SubQ

SubQ is the brand name of the first large language model built on a fully sub-quadratic architecture, where attention compute scales linearly rather than quadratically with context length. The model i…

Emerged · 29d ago View →
AI / Developer Culture / Productivity
Validating
Token-Maxxing

Token-maxxing is the practice of maximizing AI token consumption as a proxy for productivity — competing on internal leaderboards, running autonomous agents around the clock, and treating spend as sta…

Emerged · 75d ago View →
AI / Mental Health / Culture
Validating
AI Psychosis

AI psychosis names two converging phenomena: the clinical pattern where vulnerable users develop or deepen delusions through heavy chatbot use, and the builder-culture slang where developers describe …

Emerged · 74d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Rising
coding plan

A coding plan is a fixed-price monthly subscription that gives developers quota-capped access to frontier AI models via their existing coding tools — Cursor, Claude Code, Cline — replacing per-token b…

Emerged · 102d ago View →
AI / Infrastructure / Networking
Validating
Virgo Network

Virgo Network is Google's custom-built megascale AI data center fabric, announced April 22, 2026 at Google Cloud Next '26. It replaces the multi-tier Jupiter Ethernet design with a flat, two-layer non…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Infrastructure / Economics
Validating
AI Supply

AI Supply refers to the physical and logistical capacity needed to deliver AI compute at scale — GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, advanced packaging, power infrastructure, and data-center buildout. As tok…

Emerged · 37d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Validating
Flue

Flue is an open-source TypeScript framework for building autonomous agents, positioned as "The Agent Harness Framework" — not another AI SDK, but infrastructure that wraps models with a programmable h…

Emerged · 33d ago View →
AI / Open-Source Models / Enterprise
Validating
Granite 4.1

Granite 4.1 is IBM's latest open-source language model family, released April 29, 2026, in dense 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes under an Apache 2.0 license. It targets enterprise workloads emphasizin…

Emerged · 35d ago View →
AI / Multimodal / Research
Validating
Visual Primitives

Visual Primitives are coordinate-based reasoning anchors — points and bounding boxes — embedded directly into an AI model's chain-of-thought rather than output only as final answers. The term names a …

Emerged · 35d ago View →
AI / Models / Open-Weight
Rising
GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7 is an open-weight large language model from Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) designed for agentic coding, multi-step reasoning, and production tool-use workflows. The 358B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts…

Emerged · 163d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Billing
Validating
hermes.md

hermes.md is the project-specific configuration file used by [Hermes Agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) (NousResearch), the 126k-star AI coding agent. Stored at the git root as `HERM…

Emerged · 39d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Models
Validating
Laguna XS.2

Laguna XS.2 is Poolside's first open-weight model: a 33B-total / 3B-active Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) coding model released under Apache 2.0 on April 28, 2026. Designed for agentic coding and long-horiz…

Emerged · 36d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
Long-running Agents

Long-running agents are AI agents designed to sustain work across multiple context windows, persisting state through structured artifacts — progress files, git commits, feature specs — so each new ses…

Emerged · 189d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Evaluation
Validating
Value Accuracy

Value Accuracy measures the fraction of JSON leaf values that exactly match ground truth — distinct from JSON pass rate, which only checks schema structure. The gap is large: schema compliance routine…

Emerged · 36d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Orchestration
Validating
Wanman

Wanman is an open-source agent matrix runtime that orchestrates multiple specialized AI agents — CEO, dev, devops, marketing, feedback — as isolated CLI subprocesses on your local machine. The name de…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Enterprise / Automation
Validating
Workspace Agent

A workspace agent is an AI agent scoped to a shared organizational environment — running persistently in the cloud, accessing team-connected tools, and acting autonomously on behalf of the whole team.…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Desktop Automation
Validating
Agent Click

Agent click refers to the capability of an AI agent to click, type, scroll, and read native desktop applications in the background without stealing the user’s cursor, window focus, or active Space. Th…

Emerged · 36d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Validating
CUA

CUA (Computer-Use Agent) is the open-source infrastructure project by [trycua](https://github.com/trycua/cua) that provides sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks for building and evaluating AI agents that c…

Emerged · 41d ago View →
AI / Open Models / Multimodal
Validating
Gemma 4

Gemma 4 is Google DeepMind's fourth-generation family of open-weight multimodal models, released April 2, 2026 under Apache 2.0. Four sizes span phones to data centers: E2B, E4B, 26B Mixture-of-Expert…

Emerged · 62d ago View →
AI / Research / Language Models
Validating
Talkie

Talkie (full name: talkie-1930) is a 13B open-weight language model trained exclusively on 260 billion tokens of English text published before 1931. Its hard knowledge cutoff at December 31, 1930 make…

Emerged · 37d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Ecosystem Programs
Validating
Xiaomi MiMo Orbit

Xiaomi MiMo Orbit is Xiaomi's open developer ecosystem program, pairing a 100-trillion-token grant for AI builders with an Agent Ecosystem co-construction track for framework teams — Xiaomi's bet that…

Emerged · 36d ago View →
AI / LLM / Open-Weight Models
Validating
DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the premium tier of DeepSeek's V4 series: a 1.6-trillion-parameter, 49-billion-active Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1-million-token context window. It is the largest open-weight m…

Emerged · 40d ago View →
AI / Enterprise / Automation
Validating
Shared Agents

Shared Agents is the emerging paradigm for AI agents built once and deployed as an organizational resource — accessible, reusable, and improvable by an entire team rather than a single user. The shift…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Claude Code
Validating
Stop Hook

A Stop hook is the [Claude Code lifecycle event](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks) that fires every time the agent finishes a response turn. Shell commands, HTTP endpoints, or LLM prompts configu…

Emerged · 39d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Validating
Tool Layer

The tool layer is the discrete architectural component of an AI agent harness that registers, validates, and gates every function the model can call. It sits between the orchestration loop above and t…

Emerged · 85d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Architecture
Validating
Wiki Layer

Wiki Layer is an architectural pattern for multi-agent systems: a shared, git-native markdown store that all agents on a team can read from and write to, distinct from each agent's private notebook. I…

Emerged · 58d ago View →
AI / LLM / Open-Weight Models
Validating
DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek V4 is a series of open-weight Mixture-of-Experts language models from DeepSeek that bring one-million-token context to frontier-class performance at a fraction of closed-source pricing. The s…

Emerged · 40d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models / Google
Rising
Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google DeepMind's flagship reasoning model, released [February 19, 2026](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/). It introduces a "th…

Emerged · 104d ago View →
AI / Language Models / Frontier
Validating
GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's frontier language model released on April 23, 2026 — the first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5, with every GPT-5.x release between them being a post-training iteration. De…

Emerged · 41d ago View →
AI / Privacy / Data Infrastructure
Validating
Privacy Filter

Privacy Filter is an open-weight, on-device model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) from unstructured text. It runs locally — no data leaves the machine — making it…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Infrastructure
Validating
SuperHQ

SuperHQ is an open-source macOS app that runs AI coding agents — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Pi — inside isolated microVM sandboxes instead of directly on your machine. A local auth gateway keeps A…

Emerged · 52d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Rising
Agent Teams

Agent Teams is the [Claude Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams) feature that lets multiple Claude instances coordinate on a shared codebase in parallel. One session is the team lead; eac…

Emerged · 118d ago View →
AI / Strategy / Developer Culture
Established
AI-Native

AI-native describes a product, company, or workflow designed from the ground up with artificial intelligence as a foundational architectural element — not bolted on after launch. If you removed the AI…

Emerged · 1235d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Validating
Broccoli

Broccoli is an open-source coding agent that converts [Linear](https://linear.app) project-management tickets into shipped pull requests, running each task inside an isolated Google Cloud sandbox. Bui…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Rising
Cloud Coding Agents

Cloud coding agents are AI software engineering systems that execute development tasks inside remote, sandboxed cloud environments rather than on a developer's local machine. They plan, write code, ru…

Emerged · 131d ago View →
AI / LLMs / Open Source
Validating
GLM-5.1

GLM-5.1 is Z.ai's 754-billion-parameter open-weight large language model, purpose-built for agentic engineering and long-horizon coding tasks. It is a post-training upgrade to GLM-5 sharing the same M…

Emerged · 68d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Evaluation
Established
LLM-as-a-Judge

LLM-as-a-Judge is an evaluation pattern where a large language model scores or ranks outputs from another AI system, replacing expensive human reviewers with an automated judge that applies a natural-…

Emerged · 1090d ago View →
AI / Autonomous Agents / Consumer
Established
Manus

Manus is a general-purpose autonomous AI agent that accepts plain-language goals and executes multi-step tasks — web research, code generation, data analysis, file creation — without continuous user i…

Emerged · 454d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Research Automation
Validating
ML Intern

ML Intern is an open-source autonomous AI agent that runs the full machine-learning research loop without human supervision. It reads papers on arXiv, sources and reformats datasets from Hugging Face …

Emerged · 43d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Validating
Preflight (MCP)

Preflight is a free validator that probes a live MCP server endpoint and checks every requirement — OAuth 2.1 + PKCE flow, CORS headers, protocol handshake, tool execution, domain verification — befor…

Emerged · 41d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Established
Roo Code

Roo Code is an open-source VS Code extension that turns the editor into a multi-agent coding workspace, letting developers orchestrate specialized AI agents across Architect, Code, Debug, Ask, and Cus…

Emerged · 580d ago View →
AI / Creative Tools / Video Generation
Rising
Seedance 2.0

Seedance is a text-to-video AI model family developed by ByteDance's Seed research team that generates cinematic, multi-shot video from text and image inputs. It couples video generation with native s…

Emerged · 111d ago View →
AI / Enterprise / Automation
Validating
Workspace Agents

Workspace Agents is OpenAI's enterprise feature that lets teams build shared AI agents — powered by Codex — capable of running multi-step workflows autonomously across connected business tools. Unlike…

Emerged · 42d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
Code Search MCP

Code Search MCP is a category of [Model Context Protocol](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol) servers that give AI coding agents semantic and structural search over local codebases.…

Emerged · 364d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Validating
Daemons

Daemons are self-initiated AI background processes that handle ongoing maintenance work in software repositories — watching for events, detecting drift, and executing routines without prompts. Unlike …

Emerged · 43d ago View →
AI / Agentic AI / Research Automation
Established
Deep Research

Deep Research is an agentic AI capability that autonomously browses the web, synthesizes hundreds of sources, and produces a cited analyst-level report from a single prompt. The agent iterates — searc…

Emerged · 539d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Established
OpenClaw Skill

An OpenClaw Skill is a self-contained capability package — a directory with a [`SKILL.md`](https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/skills) file — that teaches the OpenClaw agent how to interact with an externa…

Emerged · 191d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
Agentic Frameworks

Agentic frameworks are software toolkits that wire a language model into a running agent — orchestrating the loop, tool calls, memory, and multi-agent coordination so developers don't build that plumb…

Emerged · 870d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Documentation
Validating
architecture diagram generator

An architecture diagram generator is an AI tool that turns a prose description, a code repository, or infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) into a rendered system architecture diagram — b…

Emerged · 58d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Browser Automation
Validating
Browser Harness

Browser Harness is a 592-line Python project from [browser-use](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) that gives an LLM direct, unmediated control of Chrome via the [DevTools Protocol](https://b…

Emerged · 47d ago View →
AI / Frontier Models / LLMs
Rising
Claude Opus 4.6

[Claude Opus 4.6](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6) is Anthropic's flagship LLM released February 5, 2026. It was the first Opus-class model with a 1M-token context window (beta at launc…

Emerged · 118d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Established
Cursor CLI

[Cursor CLI](https://cursor.com/cli) is [Cursor](https://cursor.com)'s headless command-line agent — the same Cursor Agent that drives the IDE, callable from any terminal or CI runner without the edit…

Emerged · 300d ago View →
AI / Image Generation / APIs
Validating
GPT Image 2

**GPT Image 2** is the anticipated second-generation release of OpenAI's [gpt-image](/term/gpt-image) model family — the natively multimodal image engine that powers ChatGPT's image tool and the `gpt-…

Emerged · 43d ago View →
AI / Image Generation / APIs
Established
gpt-image

**gpt-image** is OpenAI's natively multimodal image generation and editing API family — the same engine that powers ChatGPT's image tool, exposed as model IDs `gpt-image-1`, `gpt-image-1-mini`, and `g…

Emerged · 406d ago View →
AI / Productivity / Knowledge Tools
Validating
Information Operating System

Information Operating System is the self-applied tagline for [GalaxyBrain](https://galaxybrain.com/), a local-first knowledge workspace where every page carries variables, formulas, and live cross-ref…

Emerged · 44d ago View →
AI / Frontier Models / Open-Weight LLMs
Validating
Kimi K2.6

[Kimi K2.6](https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6) is Moonshot AI's April 20, 2026 open-weight flagship — a 1T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (32B active, 384 experts, 256K context, native multimoda…

Emerged · 44d ago View →
AI / Knowledge Management / Agent Workflows
Validating
LLM wiki

LLM wiki is a pattern where an AI agent incrementally compiles a folder of plain-markdown entity pages from your raw sources, then answers questions against that structured wiki instead of re-retrievi…

Emerged · 60d ago View →
AI / Consumer Tools / Dispute Resolution
Validating
Mediator AI

Mediator AI is the emerging category of LLM-driven tools that act as an impartial third party to resolve disputes between two or more people — elicit each side's preferences privately, propose candida…

Emerged · 44d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Established
OpenAI Agents SDK

OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight open-source framework for building multi-agent workflows on top of OpenAI models. It ships four primitives — Agents, Handoffs, Guardrails, and Sessions — plus built-…

Emerged · 449d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Retrieval
Rising
QMD

QMD is a local-first command-line search engine for Markdown notes, docs, and knowledge bases, built by Shopify CEO [Tobi Lütke](https://github.com/tobi/qmd). It combines BM25 full-text search, vector…

Emerged · 177d ago View →
AI / Inference / Context Management
Established
RLMs

RLMs (Recursive Language Models) are an inference strategy where an LLM treats its prompt as an object inside a Python REPL, then recursively calls sub-LLMs over chunks of it instead of stuffing every…

Emerged · 231d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Claude Code
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UserPromptSubmit Hook

The UserPromptSubmit hook is a [Claude Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks) lifecycle event that fires the moment a user hits enter on a prompt, before Claude processes it. A shell command con…

Emerged · 322d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent UX
Rising
Vibe Island

Vibe Island is a native macOS notch utility that turns the Dynamic Island area into a status-and-approval HUD for AI coding agents. It watches Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and seven other CL…

Emerged · 92d ago View →
AI / Security / Agents
Validating
agent traps

"Agent traps" is the shorthand English phrase that maps one-to-one to AI Agent Traps, the taxonomy Google DeepMind published on March 27, 2026 for adversarial web content that hijacks autonomous AI ag…

Emerged · 68d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Architecture
Established
Agentic Design

Agentic design is the discipline of architecting software systems where one or more AI agents reason, plan, and act autonomously over tools and memory. It names the pattern layer above a single LLM ca…

Emerged · 182d ago View →
AI / Security / Agents
Validating
AI Agent Traps

AI agent traps are adversarial web content designed to manipulate, hijack, or weaponize autonomous AI agents against the users they serve. The phrase names a category, not a product: six attack famili…

Emerged · 68d ago View →
AI / Infrastructure / Platforms
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AI Stack

An AI stack is the layered set of components that turns raw compute into a shippable AI product — chips and models at the bottom, data and orchestration in the middle, the application on top. Menlo Ve…

Emerged · 867d ago View →
AI / Productivity / Platforms
Established
AI Workspace

An AI workspace is a persistent, project-scoped container where chats, files, tools, and memory live together — replacing the stateless single-thread chatbot. Notion markets itself as "[the AI workspa…

Emerged · 608d ago View →
AI / Consumer / On-Device Models
Established
Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence is Apple's on-device AI brand announced at [WWDC 2024](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/06/introducing-apple-intelligence-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac/) and shipped across iOS 26, iPa…

Emerged · 723d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Research
Validating
AutoResearch

AutoResearch is an agent loop in which an LLM autonomously edits a single training file, runs a fixed 5-minute experiment, checks whether a chosen metric improved, and keeps or reverts the change — re…

Emerged · 88d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Browser Automation
Established
Browser Use

Browser Use is an open-source Python library ([browser-use/browser-use](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use)) that lets an LLM drive a real Chrome instance to complete web tasks — click, scroll…

Emerged · 580d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agentic Coding
Validating
busybee

busybee is an open-source FIFO build queue for multi-agent developer workflows. It wraps [pueue](https://github.com/Nukesor/pueue) and gates heavy commands — cmake, cargo, ninja, large test suites — s…

Emerged · 44d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agents
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Dev Agents

Dev Agents is a loose umbrella label for AI agents that write, review, and ship code on a developer's behalf — a near-synonym of the more established [coding agents](/term/coding-agents) category. In …

Emerged · 554d ago View →
AI / Hardware / Personal Compute
Established
DGX Spark

DGX Spark is NVIDIA's $3,000-$4,000 desktop AI supercomputer — a 1.2 kg box built around the [GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/) with 128 GB…

Emerged · 233d ago View →
AI / Voice & Audio / Synthesis
Established
ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is a voice AI company that builds text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, and voice-agent infrastructure used by developers, publishers, and enterprises. Founded in 2022 by ex-Google…

Emerged · 1219d ago View →
AI / Marketing Tools
Validating
Feral

Feral (stylized FeralHq) is a new agentic content-generation product that writes humor-first social posts for brand accounts. It crawls a company's website to build a brand profile, then runs a genera…

Emerged · 44d ago View →
AI / Research / Reinforcement Learning
Established
GRPO

GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) is a reinforcement-learning algorithm that teaches language models to reason by sampling multiple answers per question and scoring each answer against the gro…

Emerged · 849d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Cloud Cost
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Infrawise

Infrawise is an AI-agent Azure cost-optimization tool that plugs into a customer's cloud environment through a read-only allowlist of Azure APIs and returns prioritized rightsizing, idle-resource, and…

Emerged · 45d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / IDE
Established
Kiro

Kiro is AWS's agentic AI IDE, built on Code OSS and pitched as a fix for "the chaos of vibe coding." Its headline bet: specs first, code second. Every task starts as a generated requirements + design …

Emerged · 324d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
MCP Tool

An [MCP tool](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/tools) is one executable function exposed by an [MCP server](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) to a language model over JSON-RPC, defined by…

Emerged · 555d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
MCPs

"MCPs" is the informal plural of [MCP](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol) — the Model Context Protocol Anthropic released on November 25, 2024. When developers say "I kept adding M…

Emerged · 555d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
MLX

MLX is Apple's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon. Its API mirrors NumPy and PyTorch, but the whole runtime is built on Metal and the unified memory architecture, so ope…

Emerged · 911d ago View →
AI / Consumer / Wearables & Agents
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personal AI

Personal AI is the category of AI systems built around one individual — their memory, voice, preferences, and recall — rather than a generic assistant shared by millions. Incarnations range from dedic…

Emerged · 944d ago View →
AI / Applied / Market Landscape
Validating
Spy AI

"Spy AI" is a shared-string bucket, not one product: the phrase collides across AI trading bots for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker SPY), a Virtuals token called [SPY AI AGENT](https://www.coingecko.com/…

Emerged · 44d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Knowledge Management
Rising
Vault Context

Vault Context is the practice of feeding a local Markdown vault — its files, folder layout, frontmatter, tags, and retrieved chunks — to an LLM so the model answers grounded in your own notes instead …

Emerged · 112d ago View →
AI / Content / SEO
Established
AEO

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the practice of structuring content so that AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude — pick your page as the extractable answer to a use…

Emerged · 385d ago View →
AI / Creator Tools / Video
Validating
HyperFrames

HyperFrames is an open-source video rendering framework from HeyGen that lets AI agents compose videos by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, then outputs MP4, MOV, or WebM via Puppeteer + FFmpeg. The …

Emerged · 48d ago View →
AI / Policy / Industrial Strategy
Established
Intelligence Age

Intelligence Age is OpenAI's preferred epochal framing for the AI era — the successor to the Stone, Agricultural, and Industrial Ages in a narrative where compute, energy, and frontier models drive th…

Emerged · 618d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Code Quality
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Slop Cop

Slop Cop is an automated prose linter that flags the rhetorical and structural tells of LLM-generated writing — em-dash pivots, hedge stacks, throat-clearing intros, three-item lists, filler intensifi…

Emerged · 85d ago View →
AI / Protocols / Security
Established
AI Agent Identity

AI Agent Identity is the emerging set of protocols and file formats that let an autonomous agent prove who it is, what it's authorized to do on whose behalf, and what values it embodies. Two layers: c…

Emerged · 312d ago View →
AI / Investing / Infrastructure
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AI CapEx

AI CapEx is the industry shorthand for capital expenditure on AI infrastructure — the land, power, GPUs, servers, and data centers that hyperscalers are building to train and serve large models. It ha…

Emerged · 987d ago View →
AI / Content / SEO
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GEO

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of structuring content so that large language models — ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude — cite, quote, or recommend your brand inside the…

Emerged · 930d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Code Review
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Prism

Prism is a unified pull-request inbox that consolidates GitHub and GitLab review queues into one prioritized feed. Its pitch — ["keep up with code review, even as AI speeds up the rest"](https://prism…

Emerged · 47d ago View →
AI / Design Tools
Validating
Claude Design

Claude Design is an Anthropic Labs product that turns a conversation with Claude into polished visual artifacts — prototypes, slides, one-pagers, pitch decks, and marketing collateral — rendered as li…

Emerged · 47d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Rising
ClawHub

[ClawHub](https://clawhub.ai/) is the public skill registry and marketplace for [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw), the self-hosted personal AI agent. Developers publish text-based `SKIL…

Emerged · 151d ago View →
AI / Concepts / LLM Practice
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Context Engineering

Context engineering is the discipline of curating every token that enters an LLM's context window — system prompt, tools, retrieved data, conversation history, memory, files — so the model can plausib…

Emerged · 343d ago View →
AI / Language Models / Frontier Models
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GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's March 2026 frontier language model that unifies the Codex and GPT product lines into a single system, adding native computer-use capabilities, a 1-million-token context window, and…

Emerged · 90d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models / Open-Source LLMs
Validating
Qwen3.6

Qwen3.6 is Alibaba's Qwen team's next-generation LLM line, positioned around "real-world agents." It spans two tiers: the closed [Qwen3.6-Plus](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6) (released April 2, 2026…

Emerged · 62d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models / Open Source
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Qwen3

Qwen3 is Alibaba's third-generation open-weight foundation model family, launched [April 28, 2025](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/) under Apache 2.0. It introduced a hybrid 'Thinking' / 'Non-Thin…

Emerged · 401d ago View →
AI / Developer Culture / Productivity
Validating
Tokenmaxxing

Tokenmaxxing is the practice — and increasingly the critique — of treating AI token consumption as a productivity metric. Engineers ship more AI-generated code, climb internal token-burn leaderboards,…

Emerged · 75d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Rising
Agent Harness

An agent harness is the middleware between a large language model and the real world — code that runs the agent loop, calls tools, manages memory, enforces guardrails, and recovers from errors. Practi…

Emerged · 112d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Infrastructure
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Agent Loop

An agent loop is the control-flow pattern at the center of every autonomous LLM agent: the model observes its context, reasons about what to do, calls a tool, reads the result, and loops — until it pr…

Emerged · 384d ago View →
AI / Concepts
Established
Agentic AI

Agentic AI names a class of AI systems that autonomously plan, decide, and take actions to meet user-defined goals — not single-shot chatbot answers, but a goal-driven loop that calls tools, updates s…

Emerged · 590d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools
Established
Agentic Coding

Agentic coding is the software-development pattern where an autonomous AI agent plans, writes, tests, and iterates on code against a feedback loop — running its own builds, reading its own errors, and…

Emerged · 410d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agents
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Coding Agents

Coding Agents is the category name for AI developer tools that act on code autonomously — reading a repo, planning a change, editing files, running tests, and opening pull requests — rather than sugge…

Emerged · 380d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
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Context Window

A [context window](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents) is the span of tokens an LLM reads and reasons over in a single forward pass. In 2025-2026 the phr…

Emerged · 338d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models / Voice
Validating
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

[Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-tts/) is Google DeepMind's text-to-speech model that generates expressive speech in 70+ …

Emerged · 49d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models
Rising
Gemini 3.1 Flash

Gemini 3.1 Flash is Google's mid-2026 speed-tier refresh of the Gemini model family — a family-of-variants brand rather than a single model. Developers use "3.1 Flash" as the umbrella query; Google sh…

Emerged · 92d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Local LLM
Established
LM Studio

LM Studio is a desktop GUI — Windows, macOS, Linux — for discovering, downloading, and running open-source large language models entirely on your own machine. It wraps llama.cpp, MLX, and a visual Hug…

Emerged · 1127d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
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Managed Agents

Managed Agents is an infrastructure paradigm where cloud platforms host, orchestrate, and operate AI agents as a service. Instead of developers hand-building agent loops — memory, tool routing, state,…

Emerged · 56d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
MCP Server

An [MCP server](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) is a small, standalone program that exposes one capability — a database, a filesystem, a security scanner, a trading API — to AI agents over the [Mode…

Emerged · 555d ago View →
AI / Image Generation
Established
Nano Banana

Nano Banana is the codename, and now the public brand, for [Google DeepMind’s Gemini image-generation family](https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash/). The original Nano Banana shipped as ‘…

Emerged · 293d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools
Validating
Parallel Agents

Parallel Agents is the pattern of running multiple AI coding sessions at the same time against isolated copies of a codebase, with a human orchestrator switching between them as each returns results. …

Emerged · 50d ago View →
AI / Foundation Models / Open-Source LLMs
Established
Qwen

Qwen (通义千问) is [Alibaba Cloud's](https://qwenlm.github.io/) open-weight large-language-model family, shipped by the Tongyi Lab since August 2023. It spans text, code, vision, audio, image, embedding, …

Emerged · 1035d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Conventions
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AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md is an open, vendor-neutral markdown file placed at the root of a repository that tells AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Copilot, Jules, Amp, Factory, Windsurf) how to work w…

Emerged · 287d ago View →
AI / Culture
Established
AI Slop

AI slop is a pejorative for generative-AI content — text, images, video, pull-requests — that is technically fluent but intellectually empty, mass-produced for clicks or compliance rather than communi…

Emerged · 740d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Established
Claude Agent SDK

[Claude Agent SDK](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview) is Anthropic's programmatic toolkit for building AI agents on Claude. It exposes the same tool-loop, context management, subagent…

Emerged · 247d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Established
Claude Code

[Claude Code](https://claude.com/product/claude-code) is Anthropic's official command-line coding agent — a terminal tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, opens PRs, and drives lo…

Emerged · 464d ago View →
AI / Frontier Models / AI Safety
Validating
Claude Mythos

[Claude Mythos](https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/) is an unreleased frontier LLM from Anthropic, publicly previewed on April 7, 2026. Positioned as general-purpose, the preview centres on…

Emerged · 57d ago View →
AI / Frontier Models / LLMs
Validating
Claude Opus 4.7

[Claude Opus 4.7](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7) is Anthropic's flagship LLM, released April 16, 2026. It narrowly retakes the lead over GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on agentic coding b…

Emerged · 48d ago View →
AI / LLM Research / Context Engineering
Established
Context Rot

Context rot is the measurable degradation in large-language-model output quality as input length grows, even when the prompt stays well under the advertised context window. Models don't process the 10…

Emerged · 324d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Established
Model Context Protocol

[Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) (MCP) is an open, JSON-RPC-2.0-based standard that defines how AI applications talk to external tools, data, and systems. The spec defines a …

Emerged · 555d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Coding Agents
Established
OpenAI Codex CLI

[OpenAI Codex CLI](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli) is OpenAI's official terminal-resident coding agent: it reads a repo, edits files, runs commands, invokes subagents, and drives long tasks v…

Emerged · 413d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Established
OpenClaw

[OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/) is an open-source self-hosted personal AI agent: a long-running runtime that connects to any LLM (Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Kimi, Gemini) and drives itself from messaging…

Emerged · 201d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools
Established
OpenCode

OpenCode is an [open-source AI coding agent](https://opencode.ai/) that runs in the terminal and connects to any model provider — Claude, GPT, Gemini, local LLMs, 75+ providers via Models.dev. It’s th…

Emerged · 332d ago View →
AI / Developer Tools / Agent Frameworks
Rising
Hermes Agent

[Hermes Agent](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/) is an MIT-licensed, self-improving AI agent from Nous Research designed to live on a server — local, VPS, or serverless — and accumulate capabili…

Emerged · 101d ago View →
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