Glossary

AET

Augmented Enterprise Transformation

Augmented Enterprise Transformation is BeAI's framework for moving a company from isolated AI pilots to AI embedded in its people, processes and tools, with governance included from the start.

EU AI Act

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

The EU AI Act classifies AI systems by risk and attaches obligations to each tier, from prohibited practices to transparency duties for systems people interact with.

Digital twin

A digital twin is an executable model of a physical asset, fed with that asset's real data, which runs alongside it so simulated and observed behaviour can be compared.

DORA

Digital Operational Resilience Act

DORA is the EU regulation on digital operational resilience for the financial sector, applicable since 17 January 2025, and it reaches the ICT providers those entities depend on.

GEO

Generative Engine Optimization

Generative engine optimisation is the work of making a site accessible, extractable and citable by systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI Overviews.

Marcus theory

Marcus electron transfer theory

Marcus theory predicts the rate of an electron transfer reaction from the energy needed to reorganise the surrounding medium, which is what sets the kinetics of electrochemical corrosion.

NIS2

Directive (EU) 2022/2555

NIS2 is the EU directive on cybersecurity of network and information systems: it widens the sectors in scope, sets staged incident reporting deadlines and makes management accountable.

PINN

Physics-Informed Neural Network

A neural network whose training penalises predictions that violate the governing physical equations, so it stays plausible outside the range of data it has seen.

RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-augmented generation answers a question by first retrieving passages from a document set and then asking a language model to write the answer from those passages.

RUL

Remaining Useful Life

Remaining useful life is the time or number of cycles a component is expected to keep working before it fails, given how it has actually been operated.