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Signals
◆AI agents are moving from chat interfaces into enterprise workflows.◆Open-source AI models are becoming strategic infrastructure.◆Power availability may become a constraint on AI infrastructure.◆Physical AI is moving from laboratories into commercial environments.◆Every deployed agent is a new identity with credentials.◆Inference, not training, is becoming the dominant compute story.◆Software engineering is the proving ground for every other kind of agentic work.◆Seat-based software pricing is under structural pressure.◆AI agents are moving from chat interfaces into enterprise workflows.◆Open-source AI models are becoming strategic infrastructure.◆Power availability may become a constraint on AI infrastructure.◆Physical AI is moving from laboratories into commercial environments.◆Every deployed agent is a new identity with credentials.◆Inference, not training, is becoming the dominant compute story.◆Software engineering is the proving ground for every other kind of agentic work.◆Seat-based software pricing is under structural pressure.
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Glossary

Plain definitions of the terms we use. Each links to the topic where the term matters.

A
AI agent
A system that uses a model to plan and execute multi-step tasks by calling tools and taking actions in software environments, usually under human supervision.
AI Agents
AI-first company
An organisation whose operations, products and staffing are designed around AI systems from the start.
AI-First Companies
Agentic workflow
A business process in which one or more AI agents perform steps autonomously, with humans defining goals and reviewing outcomes.
Enterprise AIAI Agents
B
Behind-the-meter generation
Power generated on site and consumed directly, bypassing the public grid connection.
Energy for AI
D
Distillation
Training a smaller model to reproduce the behaviour of a larger one, transferring capability at lower cost.
AI Models
I
Inference
Running a trained model to produce outputs. As agents operate continuously, inference cost becomes the dominant economic factor.
AI ModelsAI Infrastructure
Interconnection queue
The backlog of projects waiting for permission and capacity to connect to the electricity grid.
Grid & StorageEnergy for AI
L
Liquid cooling
Removing heat from servers with liquid rather than air, required by the power density of AI accelerators.
AI Data Centers
Logical qubit
An error-corrected qubit built from many physical qubits, the building block of fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Quantum Computing
N
Non-human identity
A digital identity assigned to a machine, service or AI agent so its access can be scoped, monitored and revoked.
AI Security
O
Open-weight model
A model whose trained parameters are published for download and use, with or without a fully open licence.
AI Models
P
Parallax Index
Parallax Nexus's momentum score for emerging technologies, combining momentum, search interest, investment, enterprise adoption, media attention and research activity.
Physical AI
AI embodied in machines that perceive, reason and act in the physical world, such as robots and autonomous vehicles.
Physical AI
Post-quantum cryptography
Encryption designed to resist attacks from future quantum computers.
CybersecurityQuantum Computing
Prompt injection
An attack in which malicious instructions hidden in content an AI system reads cause it to take unintended actions.
AI Security
R
Reasoning model
A model that spends additional compute at inference time to plan, verify and correct its answer before responding.
Reasoning Models
S
Sovereign AI
National or regional efforts to control AI compute, models and data as strategic infrastructure.
AI Infrastructure
T
Test-time compute
Compute used when a model answers a query, as opposed to during training. Scaling it improves reasoning on hard problems.
AI ModelsReasoning Models
V
Vision-language-action model
A model that maps camera input and natural-language instructions directly to robot actions, replacing task-specific programming.
RoboticsPhysical AI
W
World model
A model that learns an internal representation of how an environment behaves, enabling prediction and planning.
AI ModelsPhysical AI