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

Skyrocketing demand for central processing units, and their graphics processing unit counterparts that underpin large language models, has boosted chip stocks to records. —Samantha Subin, CNBC, 12 May 2026

Runway, that bible of fashion and art, is under threat—from Barnes, from his grim brand of techno-Darwinism, from the large language model made flesh. —Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026

The launch comes at a time when consumer expectations are welcoming the interactive capabilities of large language models (LLMs). —Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 May 2026

In two years, large language models have gone from barely passing medical licensing exams to performing comparably to physicians on complex clinical reasoning. —Alon Bergman, STAT, 11 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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