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

For one, Lee indicated, the cost of using AI will become significantly lower, with performing inference—how AI analyzes data—for a large language model with 1 trillion parameters plummeting by more than 90% over the next four years, according to a report last month from analyst firm Gartner. —Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026

Why write this column, if a large language model can do it? —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026

Training a large language model means thousands of GPUs running simultaneously, sustaining enormous power draws for days or weeks, then dropping off sharply. —Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026

Aleph Alpha was founded in 2019 to build large language models (LLMs) before pivoting to developing AI applications. —Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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