base model

also referred to as: base models

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2023 by Alex Ratner · across every show →

Everything said about base model, oldest first

May 31, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ratner: Base models will open-source while production uses specialized models
“There are going to be these base models. They're probably going to be increasingly open source. And then the reality of what actually ships in production is going to be a whole kind of family tree of smaller specialized models that are tuned and adapted via da…”
Alex Ratner May 31, 2023 ▶ 19:38 Entering the Data-Centric Era of Foundation Models with Alex Ratner, Co-Founder & CEO of Snorkel AI
Jul 17, 2025 negative
Opinion
Laskin: Base language models before alignment are useless stochastic parrots
“If you play with one of these base models before they're aligned, they're really useless. They're, they are, they feel like stochastic parrots. They don't follow instructions.”
Misha Laskin Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 20:03 Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 400 conversations transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.