Reference
AI glossary for UAE businesses
Short, opinionated definitions of the AI terms you'll encounter when scoping a project in the region.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
A pattern where a search step retrieves the most relevant chunks of your own documents and inserts them into the LLM prompt, so the model answers from your data instead of its training memory.
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
An open protocol (initiated by Anthropic) that lets LLMs talk to tools and data sources via small typed servers — a clean way to wire an LLM to your RAG, your CRM, and your databases.
UAE PDPL
Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 — the United Arab Emirates Personal Data Protection Law. Sets out lawful bases, data subject rights, automated-decision restrictions and cross-border transfer rules.
Edge inference
Running ML inference on the device that captures the data (camera, NVR, gateway) instead of sending it to a server. Lower latency, less bandwidth, and a smaller PDPL footprint.
OpenRouter
A routing layer that exposes hundreds of LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Google…) behind a single OpenAI-compatible API, with per-call cost and provider control.