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

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Musk launched his own AI company xAI in 2023 and released the large language model Grok in the same year. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026

Rather than needing years of specialist knowledge, attackers can now use large language models to perform reconnaissance, identify weaknesses, write malicious code and map computer networks in ways that previously demanded significant expertise. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

The speech-to-text or text-to-speech vendor that’s best today may be eclipsed in months, and large language models are now reshaping the bot layer itself. — Ran Inbar, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2018, in the meaning defined above

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