AI foundations
Generative AI
AI systems that create new text, images, audio, video, code or data.
Also known as: GenAI, Gen AI
Definition
Generative AI learns patterns in training data and produces new content in response to instructions, context or other inputs.
Why it matters
Its flexible outputs unlock broad enterprise use cases but introduce non-determinism, hallucination, intellectual-property and conduct risks.
Related concepts
- Foundation model
A large pre-trained model adaptable to many downstream tasks.
- Large language model
A foundation model trained to understand and generate sequences of language tokens.
- Multimodal model
A model able to process or generate more than one type of content.