Providers Glossary

Browse 6 providers terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

6 Providers Terms

AI Provider
A company or internal platform that supplies model access, inference APIs, or hosted AI capabilities. Teams often support multiple AI providers so they can...
Authentication Provider
A service or component responsible for verifying identity and often issuing tokens, assertions, or session information to applications. Authentication...
LLM Provider
A provider that offers access to large language models through APIs, hosted infrastructure, or platform tooling. Teams compare LLM providers on quality,...
MSP
Short for managed service provider, a company that operates or supports IT functions such as infrastructure, endpoints, backups, or help desk services for...
MSSP
Short for managed security service provider, a company that delivers outsourced security functions such as monitoring, device management, alert triage,...
OpenAI API
An API provided by OpenAI for accessing model capabilities such as language generation, reasoning, embeddings, image generation, speech, and other AI workflows...

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