large language model

noun

plural large language models

: a language model that utilizes deep (see deep entry 1 sense 8) methods on an extremely large data set as a basis for predicting and constructing natural-sounding text

GPT-3 was a large language model built by OpenAI that could write impressively human-like poems, sonnets, jokes, and even code samples.

—Dale Markowitz

About five years ago, companies like Google, Microsoft and OpenAI began building neural networks that learned from huge amounts of digital text called large language models …

—Cade Metz

—abbreviation LLM

Examples of large language model in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Today's column delves into how generative AI and large language models are guided for mental health chats, focusing on system-wide prompts. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Microsoft restricted large language model access for employees and canceled Claude Code licenses to restrain costs, according to Forbes . — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 23 June 2026

In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the revelation that the Pentagon had used top large language models to identify targets for annihilation via air strikes. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 18 June 2026

The paper treads similar ground as previous research, which has noted large language models’ ability to search genomes for genes that have been sequenced after a patient was first seen in a hospital. — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 18 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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