Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Technology
Foundation model
A large general AI model trained broadly so it can be adapted to many different tasks
What's it for?
Provides a broad artificial-intelligence starting point that can be adapted for many different tasks.
For example…
One underlying model powers chat, summaries and coding help in several apps.
A company starts with a general foundation model and adds its own documents through retrieval rather than training an AI system from scratch
Think of it like…
Well-educated generalist you can brief for many jobs, rather than hiring a brand-new specialist for each task