PYMNTS.com February 7, 2025
Foundation models are large artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on humongous datasets that enable them to do a wide range of tasks across various industries.
They are called foundation models because they form the backbone for other models that businesses and individuals can customize to meet their business or personal needs.
Foundation models are also sometimes called frontier models if they represent the most advanced AI systems.
There are different types of foundation models: text-generation models such as earlier GPT models and Claude, image-generation models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, video-generation models like Sora and Veo, and code generation like Code Llama, among many others.
This list will focus on major large language foundation models, with natively multimodal Gemini as...