Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
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Explains how pretrainingThe first, biggest phase of building a model: training it on enormous amounts of text so it learns language, facts, and reasoning in general.Full definition → decisions on scale, data and compute drive the model capabilities you build on, helping you anticipate where model progress comes from.
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pretraining — The first, biggest phase of building a model: training it on enormous amounts of text so it learns language, facts, and reasoning in general.
alignment — The work of making AI systems actually pursue what their builders and users intend, rather than something subtly or dangerously different.