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

So, just as an example, the emergence of large language models from these big artificial intelligence companies—that’s really different, right? —Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 16 June 2026

Cursor was one of the first tools to fully bake features that leverage large language models into an IDE. —Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026

Most regulators are still catching up with large language models; the FSB has looked a step further. —Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

According to Sensor Tower, OpenAI’s market-leading large language model was trailed by offerings from its competitors, including Google’s Gemini, ByteDance’s Doubao and its overseas variant Dola, as well as Claude from rival developer Anthropic. —Matthew Chin, CNBC, 12 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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