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What is a context window?

The context window is the amount of text, code or other input an AI model can consider at one time. Content outside it is not seen by the model. Several current models list windows of about one million tokens.

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The context window is the amount of text, code or other input an AI model can consider at one time when producing a response. Content outside the window is not seen by the model, which is why long tasks may need summarizing or retrieval. Several current models list windows of about one million tokens.

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