Artificial intelligent assistant

Is this just a simplified spelling? I am currently reading a book and saw a formula that contained the equation labeled Pic $1$ in this picture. What is this kind of equation called or is it simply another way of displaying Pic $2$?

Pic1 is a column vector, Pic2 is a row vector

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