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title: "Glossary"
manual: "AI Universe"
version: "1.0"
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# Glossary {#glossary}

-   **AI provider**

    External service that processes prompts and returns responses
    (for example OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Mistral).

-   **Model**

    Specific AI model identifier within a provider.

-   **Embedding**

    Numeric vector representation of text used for similarity and semantic tasks.

-   **Request orchestration**

    The process of building payloads, sending requests, and parsing responses.

-   **Basic Auth**

    HTTP authentication using username and password, encoded as
    `Authorization: Basic ...`.

-   **Cache**

    Local storage used to reduce repeated API calls and improve response times.

-   **Service layer**

    Internal reusable classes used by other extensions rather than direct
    frontend output.