# Pretraining vs. Finetuning

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In this notebook, we explore the different ways to alter an existing model. First, we pretrain a model using its configuration file form HuggingFace. Next, we finetune an existing model for to follow user-provided instruction. Last, we see how to contiune pretraining on an already pretrained model. As a reminder, you must go to File > Save a copy in Drive to run the cells.