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

Turning artificial intelligence research into real-world tools isn’t always straightforward, despite the remarkable progress in recent years ranging from self-driving cars to large language models. — Bo Wang, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

World models represent a different approach to creating intelligent software than the large language models being built by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

Alpöge used an internal version of Anthropic’s large language model, Claude, to do what humans could not. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2026

Training large language models requires dense clusters of specialized GPUs that can push rack power demands past 200 kW, with 1-megawatt (MW) racks on the horizon. — Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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