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

Using large language models only where their capabilities are required makes the token economics more sustainable. — Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Apple's new Siri uses large language models to search through a user's local personal data, including texts, emails, and calendar appointments. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

Still, Yao was optimistic that embodied AI would follow the same scaling law that transformed large language models. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

Though there have been calls to increase safety guardrails on large language models, Anthropic’s approach sounds bizarre. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 10 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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