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

The revelation of the changes comes amid intense competition in the AI industry, as companies release updates to their large language models at a frenetic pace, each seeking to pull ahead of the other. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

As foundation models continue to improve, however, simply wrapping an interface around a large language model will become increasingly difficult to differentiate. — Ganesh Shankar, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has an agreement with Google to access Gemini, its proprietary large language model. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

Separately, the government claims that limiting fair use would undercut competition in the market for large language models because only the largest tech companies would have the capital necessary to pay licensing fees. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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