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

But the large language models behind most mainstream AI chatbots are trained on a wide variety of content — including huge swaths of the internet — meaning the advice can be iffy and occasionally dangerous. —Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 June 2026

Gonzague de Pirey, chief omnichannel and data officer at LVMH, said the group is optimizing its sites for search by large language models, but the end objective is driving customers to stores. —Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 1 June 2026

What drives the answers large language models (LLMs) provide? —Imri Marcus, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

The song, and its accompanying video featuring Bryan dancing on a dock, was ripped online, and launched a string of comments denouncing the track — about, yep, fishing and hunting, golfing and drinking — as the product of a large language model. —Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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