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SAP aims to displace more general large language models with the release of its own foundational “tabular” model, which the company claims will reduce training requirements for enterprises. 

The model, called SAP RPT-1, is a pre-trained model with business and enterprise knowledge out of the box. SAP calls it a Relational Foundation Model, meaning it can do predictions based on relational databases even without fine-tuning or additional training.

Walter Sun, SAP’s global head of AI, told VentureBeat in an interview that the value of the new model lies in its ability to perform various enterprise tasks, such as predictive analytics, out of