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True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models share the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
This process is thought to underlie decisions, thoughts, and memories, and studying it directly could help explain how the brain performs complex computations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
Talk to some folks in your family whom you trust to make sure you’re not overstepping any unspoken boundaries that underlie family relationships.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
Nvidia’s graphics processing units underlie most modern AI data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
In particular, we know the basic laws that underlie all of chemistry and biology.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
This question underlies Naomi Kanakia’s snappily titled “What’s So Great About the Great Books?” a compelling if excessively cautious defense of classic literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But five days after that, the DOJ notified the court in the Texas case that “the government has decided to maintain the definition” that underlies the ghost gun rule.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
"These results reveal that a shared genetic programme conserved throughout evolution underlies the specialisation of macrophages across tissues," adds Domien Vanneste, first author of the scientific article.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
“It shows a profound, practical morality that underlies her work,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
A hypothesis is a tentative explanation, a proposed answer to the question that underlies your research.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
In postproduction, Del Toro sometimes underlay Elordi’s screams with his own guttural noises or the roars of lions and gorillas, imagining a voice created by mismatched lungs and a throat from different people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
However, Sidony says her flooring was never inspected, and has shown the BBC her end of tenancy agreement which instructed her to remove carpets, underlay, gripper rods and laminate flooring.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
The turf was intended to function as an underlay for a plastic liner atop it as part of a construction project.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
When his music was combined with Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” audiences got to experience a gorgeous melody atop a disturbing, abstract underlay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
A fundamental tension has always underlain the history of the Civil Rights movement, much as it did contemporaneous news coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Approximately 91 per cent of these forests in the northern hemisphere are underlain by permafrost.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
The drill site in northwest Greenland was 138 miles from the coast and underlain by 4,560 feet of ice.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
The region is underlain by quartz veins, rich in ore.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
Their friendship, signed and sealed outwardly by what they gave, was underlain by affection of a promising sort.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly
This loss of function may be one of the underlying causes of muscle wasting and reduced regeneration in older adults.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
It happens because AIs learn to maximize a reward—usually some form of numeric score, not the underlying behavior programmers intend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
On Thursday, he said the underlying agreement on recouping the toll revenues between Canada and the state of Michigan remains in place.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
They'd put a good face on it, but one could always detect an underlying sense of defeat.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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