AI glossary - terms beginning with F

This hub lists the enterprise AI glossary terms in the Impetora reference that begin with the letter F. Each entry links to a full vendor-neutral definition with how the concept applies in regulated enterprise work.

4 terms

What F-words matter in enterprise AI?

FCA AI Strategy

Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority's AI strategy is the UK financial regulator's published approach to AI supervision, emphasising existing rules over new AI-specific legislation.

Fine-tuning

Architecture

Fine-tuning is the process of continuing the training of a pre-trained model on a smaller, task-specific dataset to specialise its behaviour.

Foundation Model

Foundational

A foundation model is a large neural network pre-trained on broad data and designed to be adapted to many downstream tasks.

Function Calling

Architecture

Function calling is the specific implementation of tool use where the language model emits a structured JSON object matching a function signature, which the host application then executes.

Updated 2026-04-27. Markdown twin: /md/glossary/letter/f.