# Foundation Model

> A foundation model is a large model trained on broad data at scale that can be adapted to many downstream tasks. LLMs and large vision models are foundation models — general-purpose bases you build specific applications on.

*Source: https://www.lazlosoftwaresolution.com/glossary/foundation-model*

Rather than training a bespoke model per task, teams adapt a foundation model through prompting, retrieval or fine-tuning — dramatically lowering the cost and time to ship AI features.