Justifying the LLM Development Pipeline

A team of AI researchers is developing a new large language model intended for public use. Arrange the following high-level stages of their development process into the correct chronological order, starting from the initial training.

An AI development team has just completed the initial, large-scale training of a new language model on a massive dataset of text and code from the internet. What is the primary distinction in purpose between this initial training phase and the alignment stages that typically follow?