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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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foundation model

/faʊnˈdeɪʃən ˈmɒdəl/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A general-purpose engine bought to solve a problem the org had not yet agreed to define.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A large model pretrained on broad data that serves as a base for many downstream tasks.

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See also
  • ai strategyTerm struck pending the definition of quality, ownership, lineage, and decision rights it depends on.
  • fine-tuningTeaching the model the house style before deciding the house had one.
  • inferenceThe part priced per call, unlike the definitions it relies on, which are free and missing.
  • retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.