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
Post-training mainly shapes a model's…
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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.
In the illustration
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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