Slang & Culture
AI Wrapper
A dismissive or descriptive term for a product that’s mostly a thin interface layered over an existing foundation model’s API, with little proprietary technology of its own.
Origin · no single documented coiner
No identifiable single coiner — organically-evolved developer and investor jargon dating to the post-ChatGPT-API boom of 2023, as thousands of “GPT wrapper” startups launched.
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