Prompt
The words you give an AI to tell it what to make.
Learn it through a story
- The Tiger That Never Came (Jugnupur Tales Vol 1, Ch 6)
- The Forwarded Message With a Secret Order (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 6)
Short on time? Read the 5-minute version.
Related terms
- Open-weight model A model whose trained weights are published, so anyone can download and run it.
- Pre-training The first stage, learning from a huge amount of text by guessing the next word.
- Probability How likely something is to happen.
- Prompt engineering The skill of writing clear instructions so AI gives useful answers.
- Reasoning model A model that works through a problem step by step before answering: slower, but better at maths, logic and planning.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) The AI first looks up trusted documents, then answers using what it found.