Slang & Culture
AI native
Two meanings. For a company: built around AI from day one, rather than bolting AI onto an existing product. For a person: someone, usually young, who grew up using AI tools the way earlier generations grew up with the internet.
Origin · no single documented coiner
Modeled on the older term 'digital native', coined by writer Marc Prensky in 2001 for people raised with computers. The 'AI native' variant spread through startup and investor writing from about 2023; no single documented coiner.
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