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Foundation Model
AI Glossary Term
What is Foundation Model?
Definition
A large pre-trained model that can be adapted to many downstream tasks.
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AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.
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Continuing training on domain-specific data to adapt a pre-trained model to a specific task.
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A language model trained on massive text corpora to generate and analyze text.
Pretraining
Initial large-scale model training on broad data before downstream adaptation.
Feature Extraction
Converting raw data into informative features that a model can use.
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