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Model Knowledge Cutoff

Model Knowledge Cutoff is the latest training-data period a model may reliably incorporate without retrieval.

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• Retrieval
• Fine-Tuning
• Hallucination
• Pretraining
• Grounded Answer
• Large Language Model (LLM)

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Updated November 2026.