AI Fundamentals

Context Window

The context window is the maximum text length (in tokens) an AI model can process at once. It determines how much conversation content AI can 'remember' and how many source materials it can reference when answering questions.

Why It Matters for AEO

Context window size affects how many sources AI can reference simultaneously. Larger context windows mean AI can compare more sources, so your content needs to stand out in quality and depth. Place core information early to ensure citation even if truncated.

Practical Examples

  1. 1GPT-4 Turbo has a 128K token context window
  2. 2Claude 3 supports up to 200K tokens of context
  3. 3Google Gemini 1.5 can process up to 1M tokens

Related Terms

TokenizationLarge Language Model (LLM)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Transformer Architecture

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