Comment by throwaway314155

I guess I just find the whole "foundation model" phrasing to be designed in a way to pat the backs of the "winners" who would of course be those with the most money. I'm sure there are foundation models from groups that aren't e.g. OpenAI, but the origins felt egotistical and asserting that you made one prior to the phrase's inception only feels more-so.

Had you merely called it an early instance of pretraining, I'd be fine with it.