Auto-Tune is a brand of software developed by Antares Audio Technologies, yet it the word is always used to mean, "digital pitch correction software," which is like referring to your vacuum as "a Hoover."
It was made in the '90s to allow easy fixes to slightly off-pitch vocal takes. It became very famous when Cher's '97 hit single, "Believe," employed it for a different purpose, a distortion of the vocal to give it that digital warble-warble sound.
There are several popular brands of digital pitch correction software other than Antares/Auto-Tune.
Do mastering engineers ever apply digital pitch correction to the vocals on finished masters? Is that even a thing?