Key definitions
A quick guide to the terms you will see throughout the Optum AI Studio AI Gateway documentation.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Organization | Your company or business that has signed up to use Optum AI Studio services. |
| Workspace | A separate space inside your organization for one team or application, so each can manage its own work independently. |
| Access Credentials | A client_id and client_secret (OAuth credentials) that prove who you are. You use them to get a token, which lets you call AI Gateway models. |
/chat/completions | OpenAI's Chat Completions API. You send a conversation and get the model's reply. |
/responses | OpenAI's Responses API. A newer way to send input to a model and get its response. |
| AI-Gateway-Token-URL | The web address you send your credentials to in order to get a token. |
| Base URL | The main web address you use to call models. It is the same for every model in your organization. |
| Tokens | Small pieces of text, roughly a short word or part of a word. Models split your text into tokens before processing it. |