Frontier model

A foundation model that is among the current 'best-of-the-best' in the world; the set changes every few months.

Also called

  • Frontier AI
  • State-of-the-art (SOTA) model

Kind of

  • Model The trained set of numbers (parameters) and structure that takes an input and produces an output; the part of an AI system that does the predicting.

Often confused with

  • Jagged frontier A pattern where a model does some tasks well and fails at others, and the line between them is uneven and hard to predict, even for tasks that seem equally hard.

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