Grounding Snippet
A short, extractive selection of sentences pulled from a page and supplied to an AI model as the evidence it grounds an answer on; the atomic unit of visibility in AI search.
A grounding snippet is a short, extractive selection of sentences pulled from a page and supplied to an AI model as the evidence it grounds an answer on. Non-contiguous sentences are joined by an ellipsis, giving the familiar segment … segment … segment shape. It is the atomic unit of visibility in AI search.
It is produced during grounding, after query fanout. Full article: Grounding Snippets.