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Pretrained Model
A pretrained model is the base model produced by self-supervised training on large text corpora, before instruction or chat tuning.
- Category
- Not classified
- Difficulty
- Not classified
- Aliases
- None tracked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Key facts
- Base checkpoints predict text but do not reliably follow instructions, so for most build decisions you deploy the instruct or chat variant; you reach for the raw base model mainly when you are doing your own fine-tuning.