What is a model?

A model is the trained thing itself: a very large set of numbers that turns your input into its output.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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A model has no memory between requests and cannot do anything on its own. It reads what you send and writes a response.

Everything that makes it feel capable, tools, files, memory, comes from what is built around it.