A saved state of a model partway through its training. Chapter 3.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher
The dated promise of an AI that does its own research, what the laboratories have published, and what the public record can and cannot yet check.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Checkpoint.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/checkpoint (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-checkpoint-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Checkpoint}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/checkpoint},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}