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Start before LLMs. Understand where AI, ML and neural networks fit.
Model
A model is a learned mathematical system that maps inputs to predictions, scores or generated outputs.
Think of it like
Think of Model as one layer in a very large toolbox: you only need to understand what job that layer performs.
Real life
A phone spam filter, recommendation engine, fraud detector or voice assistant may use Model somewhere inside.
SRE lens
A production endpoint may expose one model for classification and another for text generation.
Remember thisA model is a learned mathematical system that maps inputs to predictions, scores or generated outputs.