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

Over the past few years, massive datasets scraped from the internet to train large language models like ChatGPT and Claude have become increasingly controversial—and legally contested. —Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026

Tom McCoy, a former NACLO winner who is currently a competition organizer and computational linguistics researcher at Yale University, works to bridge the gap between how language is handled in large language models and how it’s described in linguistic theory. —Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2026

Consumer tools such as spell-check, calculators, spreadsheets, robocall filtering and large language models, such as ChatGPT, would not be affected. —Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026

In the future, Palantir expects the role of large language models to increase in importance, according to people with knowledge of the company’s ambitions. —Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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