Australian EnterpriseAI Index
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Fine-tuning

Fine-tuning takes a general-purpose foundation model and continues training it on a narrower, organisation-specific dataset — improving performance on domain-specific tasks (e.g. insurance claims language, clinical notes) at the cost of additional infrastructure, data governance, and ongoing maintenance versus prompting or retrieval-augmented approaches.

Primarily affects

The Investment dimension of the Australian Enterprise AI Index.

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