TechCrunch published a continuously updated AI glossary translating the terms flooding product pitches, earnings calls, and startup demos into plain English. It covers the usual suspects—AGI, hallucinations, fine-tuning, embeddings—for readers trying to follow conversations without pretending acronyms explain themselves.
Language controls who gets heard in tech. When every meeting becomes alphabet soup, the people who can translate gain power. Everyone else nods along while executives spend millions on tools they barely understand. An AI glossary maps who gets included and who gets left behind.
The terminology will keep shifting as products and marketing move faster than the industry can define them. Expect more glossaries, more explainers, and fiercer fights over definitions like AGI. Whoever controls the definition controls the hype, the valuation, and the policy debate in 2026.
An industry selling productivity now requires a translation layer just to explain itself. Founders raising money, workers told to adopt new tools, executives buying software they don't understand—all trapped in a system where confusion still benefits the sellers. TechCrunch is solving a real problem. The problem is that the problem exists at all.
Filed to the Technology desk · Jul 3