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What is Post-Training?

Training after pretraining, such as tuning on examples and on human preferences, that shapes how a model follows instructions and behaves. At a model lab, product teams negotiate changes to it with researchers; it is not a setting to toggle.

pretrained → tuned · note matches the fork

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The PM made the case for a post-training change the way research expects it: ranked P0 by user impact, with 60 failing transcripts and the rubric they broke.

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The bell arrives from the casting pit holding all its metal. On the tuning lathe a cutter shaves the inside wall, strike after strike, until its note matches the fork.

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