Base model

Fact

A general AI model pretrained on huge data and later adapted for many tasks.

In Plain Words

A base model is a frozen cheese pizza. The hard part is done, but it still needs toppings before anyone cheers.

It sits under many AI products. After fine-tuning, it can become a helper for one job.

Related Concepts

• Foundation Model
• Pretraining
• Fine-tuning
• Large Language Model

Foundation-model
Base model is close to Foundation-model. Both mean a general AI base.

Pretraining
Pretraining gives a Base model its basic skills.

Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning shapes a Base model for one task.

LLM
Many LLMs are Base models focused on language.