Running additional training cycles on an existing pre-trained foundation model using specialized company datasets to adjust its tone, vocabulary, or output formatting.

A variant of "fine-tuning," brandished in pitch decks to make training a model on custom documents sound like an elite machine learning breakthrough.

• Research Breakthrough Posture: Brandishing "model fine-tuning" to sound like an advanced AI laboratory.
• Over-Engineered Expense: Spending time and money fine-tuning a model when clear prompt rules delivered identical results.
• Kitchen Reality Check: Like adding a pinch of salt to a stew and calling it "systematic culinary recipe fine-tuning."

Ford v Ferrari (2010s) scene where Ken Miles sits inside the GT40 cockpit with a screwdriver, carefully adjusting carburetor fuel jets by ear.

Additional training run on a software model using specialized files to teach it specific formatting or vocabulary.

“We perform model fine-tuning using internal legal briefs to improve contract search precision.”

“We ran additional training on our software model using our internal company documents so it understands our firm's specific phrasing.”