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Generative AI (GenAI)
AI that creates new content – text, images, code and more.
Explanation
Generative AI refers to systems that can generate new content instead of just analyzing existing data. These include models such as ChatGPT, DALL-E or Claude.
How it works
GenAI models learn the structure and patterns from training data and can then generate similar but new content - word by word, pixel by pixel.
Example
Automatic text creation for marketing, code generation, document summaries or image creation.
Why it matters
GenAI has made AI accessible to millions of users and enables entirely new types of automation.