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

While tech giants bet on achieving more advanced AIs by feeding ever more data and computational resources to large language models (LLMs), Chollet argues this approach alone won't achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). —Stephen Thomas, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024

Last year, scientists at Carnegie Mellon asked a large language model called Coscientist to make some compounds. —Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024

The company’s Hopper graphics processing units, or GPUs, are used for training and inferencing some of the world’s most powerful large language models (LLMs). —Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2024

But earlier this month, Google announced new Nest products, which also brought word that Google Assistant will soon be getting a more natural voice, and some of its features will be upgraded with Gemini's large language models. —Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above