Talk:Foundation model

Discussion of "large language model"

It seems to me this article should at least mention that the more established term of art is simply "large language model" and the term "foundation model" was proposed as an alternative. Thoughts? Kylebgorman (talk) Kylebgorman (talk) 15:51, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Good question - large language models are a type of foundation models. Foundation models don't have to be about language. Ananyak94 (talk) 02:11, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

I think it's still good to mention the term "large language model", since it is one of the most prominent classes of "foundation models", and perhaps explicitly state the difference. Ananyak94 (talk) 02:12, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

The earliest examples of foundation models were not large language models, but vision backbones.

Examples of such vision backbones are: VGG, AlexNet, and ResNet. Even though they pre-existed the coining of the term "foundation model" they were still foundation models in the strictest possible sense. Keskival (talk) 11:03, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Biased and false Frontier Model Section

"Frontier model" is a generic term to refer to the biggest and best LLMs in existence. They have larger training datasets more in depth training.

The term has nothing to do with "danger"

Does wikipedia define a sharp knife as "one that poses significant risk to the world"?

Military article about frontier models ~2026-44407-3 (talk) 05:05, 21 January 2026 (UTC)