Foundation Models

Hey, in this blog, I explain the key concepts around Foundation Models: understanding what they are, some technical details and their applications, and what benefits the business gets when leveraging Foundation Models.

What are the Foundation Models?

A foundation model is an AI model trained on large amounts of unlabeled data, which can then be adapted to new scenarios and use cases. Although a foundation model also requires a significant investment upfront, it amortizes the initial work of AI model building each time it is used, as the data requirements for fine-tuning additional models are much lower. This leads to a huge ROI increase and a greatly accelerated time to market. More on this in upcoming blogs….

Foundation models in layman’s terms:

Foundation models are like super-smart computers that are good at understanding and working with human language. They are trained on many texts from books, articles, and websites to learn patterns and relationships between words and sentences.

Imagine you have a friend who loves reading books. They have read so many books that they notice common phrases, words that often go together, and how different ideas are connected. They become really good at predicting what words might come next in a sentence based on the previous words.

Foundation models are like that friend but with superpowers. They are trained on a massive amount of text data to understand and generate human-like text. They can…