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AI Commerce Glossary

Definitions of key terms in AI asset commerce -- datasets, agents, workflows, APIs, licensing, and the infrastructure of the AI marketplace economy.

12 Terms

A

AI Agent
An autonomous AI system configured to perform specific tasks with minimal human intervention.
Also: autonomous agent, AI bot, task agent
AI Asset
Any digital intelligence product that can be packaged, valued, and monetized independently.
Also: intelligence asset, AI inventory
AI Asset Brokerage
A service that facilitates transactions between AI asset sellers and qualified buyers, often for complex or high-value deals.
Also: data brokerage, AI deal facilitation
AI Asset Licensing
The legal and commercial terms defining how a buyer may use, redistribute, or build with an AI asset.
Also: data licensing, AI license, usage rights
AI Automation
The use of AI to perform tasks that previously required human attention, at scale and with minimal intervention.
Also: intelligent automation, AI-powered automation, agentic automation
AI Dataset
A structured collection of data used for training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or enriching AI systems.
Also: training data, ML dataset, data asset
AI Workflow
A documented, repeatable sequence of AI-powered steps that automates a business process.
Also: AI automation, AI pipeline, AI process

I

Inference API
A machine-readable endpoint that accepts inputs and returns AI model outputs on demand.
Also: model API, AI API, LLM endpoint

K

Knowledge Base
A structured repository of organized information used to ground AI systems in domain-specific knowledge.
Also: knowledge asset, RAG corpus, semantic knowledge layer

M

Machine-to-Machine Transaction
An automated commercial exchange between two AI systems or software agents without human approval at each step.
Also: M2M transaction, agent-to-agent commerce, automated procurement

P

Prompt Library
A curated, structured collection of tested prompts designed to produce specific outputs from AI language models.
Also: prompt collection, prompt pack, prompt templates

T

Training Data
Data used to train a machine learning model to recognize patterns, make predictions, or generate outputs.
Also: training corpus, training set, labeled data