Glossary

AI and fine-tuning terms, in plain language

A quick reference for the words you'll run into across Foundry — no PhD required.

Core terms

Base model

A pretrained checkpoint you fine-tune on top of.

Fine-tuning

Adapting a base model to your data and task.

Dataset

The examples (often JSONL) used to train a model.

Training job

A run that produces a new named model.

Named model

Your fine-tuned model destination you can call.

Workspace

A job-shaped UI opened after training completes.

Credits

Metered units spent on fine-tunes and chat.

Inference

Running a model to generate a response.

More terms

Epoch

One full pass over the training dataset.

Loss

A number that drops as the model learns.

Token

A chunk of text the model reads and writes.

Prompt

The input you give a model at inference time.

System prompt

Instructions that steer a model's behavior.

Glossary injection

Feeding term mappings to guide translation.

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