Latency
How long the AI takes to answer. It matters most wherever somebody is waiting - a customer mid-chat, a fraud check at the checkout - and barely at all for work that runs overnight.
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Plain-English definitions of the AI and AI agent terms that turn up in vendor pitches, product decisions and team conversations.