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Building a model is just the start. Post-training makes it useful. Our CTO Mathias Lechner (Mathias Lechner) sits down for a conversation with Maxime Labonne (Maxime Labonne), our head of post-training, on the pipeline that takes a base model from autocomplete to something that can reason and follow instructions.

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