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Classic Mac OS

Classic Mac OS, originally called Macintosh System Software, is the original operating system of the Macintosh, used from 1984 until Apple replaced it with Mac OS X in 2001.

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Classification Algorithms

Classification algorithms are supervised machine learning methods assigning feature vectors to predefined classes, including SVM, random forests, GBDT, kNN, logistic regression, and neural networks; benchmarks show no single best classifier, with performance depending on the dataset.

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Classification tree

A classification tree is a supervised machine learning method that predicts a class label by recursively splitting data on feature tests, assigning a class at each leaf.

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Classifier guidance

Classifier guidance is a technique for steering diffusion model sampling by adding a classifier's gradient at each denoising step, introduced by OpenAI's Dhariwal and Nichol in 2021.

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Classifier-free guidance

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a sampling technique for diffusion models, introduced by Jonathan Ho and Tim Salimans in 2021, that improves how closely generated output follows its prompt.

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Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), or variable-length subnet masking, is the Internet's method of allocating and routing IP addresses as variable-length prefixes, replacing the classful system in 1993.

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Claude (AI)

Claude, also known as Anthropic Claude, is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic, a company founded by former OpenAI staff in 2021, trained with a method called Constitutional AI.

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Claude (assistant apps)

Claude is Anthropic's consumer and enterprise assistant app for web, mobile, and desktop, launched in 2023, offering agent features like Cowork and computer use through free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

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Claude (model family)

Claude is a family of closed-weight large language models developed by Anthropic, running from Claude 1 in March 2023 through Claude Fable 5.1 in 2026.

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Claude 2

Claude 2 was a large language model chatbot and API model released by Anthropic in July 2023, offering a 100,000-token context window and improved coding and math performance.

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Claude 3

Claude 3 was a family of three large language models, Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, released by Anthropic on March 4, 2024 with a 200,000-token context window.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a large language model released by Anthropic on June 20, 2024 as the first Claude 3.5 model, outperforming Claude 3 Opus at mid-tier speed and cost.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is a large language model released by Anthropic on February 24, 2025, described as the first hybrid reasoning model, with visible extended thinking.

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Claude 4

Claude 4 is a generation of large language models released by Anthropic on May 22, 2025, consisting of the hybrid reasoning models Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4.

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Claude Agent SDK

The Claude Agent SDK, formerly the Claude Code SDK, is a software development kit from Anthropic, released in 2025, for building AI agents in Python and TypeScript.

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Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-first agentic coding tool, launched in research preview in February 2025, which reads codebases, edits files, runs shell commands, and manages git through natural-language instructions.

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Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork is an agentic workspace product from Anthropic, launched in January 2026, that lets non-programmers hand research, analysis, and document creation to Claude in Claude Desktop.

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Claude Mythos

Claude Mythos is a family of highly capable language models developed by Anthropic, first announced in April 2026 and restricted to vetted cybersecurity and life sciences organizations.

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Claude Opus 4

Claude Opus 4 is a large language model developed by Anthropic, released on May 22, 2025 as the flagship Claude 4 model, emphasizing autonomous coding and long-running agentic work.

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Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5 is a large language model released by Anthropic on November 24, 2025, positioned as its flagship model for coding, agentic workflows, and computer use.

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Claude Research mode

Claude Research mode is an agentic research feature in Anthropic's Claude apps that autonomously runs multiple web and workspace searches and produces a cited report, launched in April 2025.

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Claude Sonnet 4

Claude Sonnet 4 is a large language model released by Anthropic on May 22, 2025, a hybrid reasoning model that succeeded Claude Sonnet 3.7 for coding and agents.

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Claw-free graph

A claw-free graph is a graph with no induced K1,3, the three-leaf star called the claw; it generalizes line graphs and admits polynomial-time stable set algorithms.

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CLC Genomics Workbench

CLC Genomics Workbench is a commercial desktop software package from QIAGEN for analyzing, comparing, and visualizing next-generation sequencing data, developed by CLC bio and acquired in 2013.

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Clean architecture

Clean architecture is a software architectural style proposed by Robert C. Martin in 2012, organizing a program into concentric layers where source code dependencies may point only inward, toward the business rules.

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Cleanlab

Cleanlab is an American data-quality software company, founded in 2021 by three MIT PhDs, whose Python library uses confident learning to find label errors in machine learning datasets.

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CleanRL

CleanRL is an open-source Python library for deep reinforcement learning created by Shengyi Huang and colleagues, where every algorithm variant lives in a single self-contained file.

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Clear channel assessment

Clear channel assessment (CCA) is the physical-layer mechanism an 802.11 Wi-Fi radio uses to decide whether the wireless channel is busy or idle, controlling when a station may transmit.

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CLEAR Secure

CLEAR Secure is a New York-based secure identity company whose paid CLEAR+ subscription uses iris, fingerprint, and face verification to speed travelers through airport security ID checks.

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ClearML

ClearML, formerly Allegro Trains, is an open-source end-to-end MLOps/LLMOps platform: experiment tracking, data versioning, orchestration, pipelines, and model serving, self-hosted or SaaS; Apache 2.0 SDK, SSPL server, latest v2.1.12 (Aug 2026).