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Foundation Model
A large-scale machine learning model trained on a vast quantity of diverse data at scale, which can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks.
Foundation Models serve as the generic, highly capable base layer for Private AI systems. Rather than training a model from scratch—which costs tens of millions of dollars—enterprises download open-weight Foundation Models and fine-tune or RAG-augment them for their specific operational domains.
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