Grounding
The process by which an AI system answers with current information: it runs a search, retrieves pages, reads short extracts, and writes its answer from them rather than from memory.
Grounding is the process by which an AI system answers with current information. Rather than relying on memory, it runs a search, retrieves pages, reads short extracts from them, and writes its answer from those extracts.
The extracts themselves are grounding snippets. Full article: Grounding Snippets.