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

Apple has had some trouble with that wily new technology, in part because large language models can be unreliable, and Apple’s whole, like, ~thing~ is quality. —Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026

Unlike large language models trained on vast internet corpora, embodied AI systems must learn through interaction with the physical world. —Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026

In the early days of the AI boom, all the focus was on GPUs, or graphics processing units, for training large language models and powering inference applications. —Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026

There was no single tool that could launch devastating new attacks, but large language models were still harnessed to supercharge old tricks of the trade. —Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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