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Editor\u2019s note: This post is part of the <\/i>AI Decoded series<\/i><\/a>, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and which showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for RTX PC users.<\/i><\/p>\n

Skyscrapers start with strong foundations. The same goes for apps powered by AI.<\/p>\n

A foundation model<\/a> is an AI neural network trained on immense amounts of raw data, generally with unsupervised learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a type of artificial intelligence model trained to understand and generate human-like language. Imagine giving a computer a huge library of books to read and learn from, so it can understand the context and meaning behind words and sentences, just like a human does.<\/p>\n

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Foundation models.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A foundation model\u2019s deep knowledge base and ability to communicate in natural language make it useful for a broad range of applications, including text generation and summarization, copilot production and computer code analysis, image and video creation, and audio transcription and speech synthesis.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT, one of the most notable generative AI applications, is a chatbot built with OpenAI\u2019s GPT foundation model. Now in its fourth version, GPT-4 is a large multimodal model that can ingest text or images and generate text or image responses.<\/p>\n

Online apps built on foundation models typically access the models from a data center. But many of these models, and the applications they power, can now run locally on PCs and workstations with NVIDIA GeForce<\/a> and NVIDIA RTX<\/a> GPUs.<\/p>\n

Foundation Model Uses<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Foundation models can perform a variety of functions, including:<\/p>\n