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Emergent abilities

Emergent abilities are capabilities that appear in larger language models but are absent or weak in smaller ones. Researchers debate how much of this effect reflects how performance is measured.

Emergent abilities sits in the Models part of the Agentik {OS} glossary, which defines the words used to build and run AI agent systems.

Also called Emergent capabilities, Emergence.