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

However, positive news around Gemini, the large language models from Google, have been a boon for the stock in recent months. —Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026

It’s been a little over three years since the launch of the first commercially-available large language model (LLM) chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. —Joe Wilkins Published Jan 29, Futurism, 29 Jan. 2026

If a production company sells its back catalog or future content to an AI training company for training large language models (LLMs), then Equity wants all members who appear in this footage to receive a payout. —Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026

But although Anthropic has so far dodged the various scandals that have plagued other large language models, the company has not inspired much faith that such problems will be avoided forever. —Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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