Natasha Lomas

1. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Natasha Lomas, Romain Dillet, Kyle Wiggers, Lucas Ropek

   Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know (opens the original)

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   AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it's doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you'll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like "opaque recurrence," the reasoning technique in OpenAI's new Astra model that's got AI safety researchers rattled. The vocabulary moves fast enough to make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure. This glossary is our at

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