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technique
Grounding
Grounding ties a model's output to verifiable external sources — retrieved documents, tool results, live data — often with citation contracts that let a user check each claim.
- Category
- technique
- Difficulty
- Not classified
- Aliases
- None tracked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Key facts
- It reduces unsupported statements and enables verification, but does not guarantee factual accuracy: the model can still misread, misattribute, or over-extend a cited source.
Models Mentioning Grounding(12)
Gemini 3.8 Live2026-09Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking2026-09MAI-Image-2.6-Flash2026-09Gemini 3.8 Flash2026-09Muse Spark 1.32026-09Muse Spark 1.12026-07Qwen3.7-Plus2026-06Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)2026-05Gemini 3.5 Flash2026-05Jamba Large 1.72026-02UI-TARS 1.5 7B2026-02Gemini 3 Flash Preview2025-12