AI glossary / The basics
Foundation model
A big general-purpose AI model that lots of different products are built on top of.
More words in The basics
- Generative AIAI that creates new things, such as text, images, music, video or code, rather than only sorting or analysing what already exists.
- Large language modelAn AI trained on enormous amounts of text so it can read and write like a person. It works by predicting which words should come next.
- Machine learningTeaching computers by showing them lots of examples rather than writing out every rule by hand.
- ModelThe trained brain of an AI system. It's the result of all the learning and the thing that produces answers.
- MultimodalAn AI that handles more than one kind of input or output, such as text, images, audio and video, not just words.