Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create text, images, videos, and other kinds of data.
The most well-known GenAI model in 2024 is ChatGPT. Microsoft Co-Pilot, Google Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude are other examples of GenAI tools.
Text-based tools are built on Large Language Models, or LLMs.
[Generative artificial intelligence - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence):
>**Generative artificial intelligence** (**generative AI**, **GenAI**, or **GAI**) is [artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence") capable of generating text, images, videos, or other data using [generative models](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_model "Generative model"), often in response to [prompts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_(natural_language) "Prompt (natural language)"). Generative AI models [learn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning") the patterns and structure of their input [training data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_data_set "Training data set") and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.
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**Relates to**: [[AI]], [[Large Language Model|LLM]]