training
noun
the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained.
pretraining
-
a word derived from
training.
Example Sentences
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Jacob Coxon, an artificial-intelligence researcher who announced his resignation from Anthropic on Tuesday, wrote in a post on X that he had spent three years on pretraining research, including at OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Gemini 4, the company’s next planned flagship model, has performed well on pretraining evaluations but still needs to complete posttraining, according to the people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
This initial phase, known as pretraining, was then followed by additional training using more sophisticated models that include potential new physics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Karpathy joined Anthropic’s pretraining team, which oversees the data training process for the company’s Claude artificial-intelligence models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Anthropic confirmed that Karpathy has joined its pretraining program, which is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give its chatbot Claude “its core knowledge and capabilities.”
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
