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Foundation model

A large model trained on very general data, designed to be reused and adapted for many different tasks rather than serving a single purpose.

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In practice

GPT-4, Claude, Llama are foundation models. For most use cases you do not train a new one: you use it via API or open weights and adapt it with prompting, RAG, or a small fine-tune on top.

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Seen in the wild

12 entries mentioning it
  1. Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model for everyone
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  2. Physical Intelligence π0.7: a generalist robot model that starts recombining skills
    High
  3. Apple WWDC 2025: iOS 26 and the Foundation Models framework
    High
  4. NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1: the open foundation model for humanoid robots unveiled at GTC
    High
  5. CrossFormer: one policy for manipulation, navigation, locomotion and aviation
    High
  6. Florence-2: a single visual model for captioning, detection, segmentation, and OCR
    High
  7. OpenVLA: an open-source 7B Vision-Language-Action model for robotics
    Medium
  8. Open X-Embodiment and RT-X: a shared robotics dataset from 22 robot types
    High
  9. IBM makes watsonx.ai and watsonx.data available to enterprises
    Medium
  10. PaLM-E: a 562-billion-parameter embodied language model
    Landmark
  11. LLaMA: Meta opens foundation models to research
    High
  12. On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models: Stanford coins the term
    High
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