Word
context window
Definition
n. How much text an AI can look at and remember at once when answering.
n. The maximum span of tokens an AI model can attend to within a single interaction, bounding its working memory.
Examples
“The latest model has a much larger context window.”
“A larger context window allows the model to process longer documents.”
Examples
simple
“The latest model has a much larger context window.”
contextual
“A larger context window allows the model to process longer documents.”
Etymology
context from Latin contextus + window from Old Norse vindauga "wind-eye."
Original etymology written by Shinotoshi Nakamura.
Domain
Technology
Scan code
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