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The Model Zoo

"AI model" covers very different things: ones that write, ones that only read, ones that only decide, ones that see pictures. They come big or small, and some you can run on your own computer. Three questions sort any of them, and you will use those three to read vendor pitches.Sort any model by three questions: what goes in and what comes out (text, numbers, images, decisions), how big it is (frontier or small), and who runs it (a vendor's service or open weights on your own machine). Plus the difference between a model and the product wrapped around it.Foundation models and their descendants by modality and output (generative, embedding, classifier, decision, multimodal), by scale (frontier versus small language models), by access (proprietary API versus open-weight), and why the model is not the service when it comes to data handling.

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Adapted from Microsoft's Generative AI for Beginners (Lesson 2: Exploring and comparing different LLMs, Lesson 16: Open source models, Lesson 19: Small language models), MIT License and Microsoft's AI for Beginners (Extra: Multimodal networks), MIT License. Rewritten for cannabis operations; not endorsed by Microsoft.