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 company uses large language models combined with reinforcement learning and formal verification. —Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025

And only recently, new large language models in artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, promise to greatly expand our ability to manipulate and employ enormous quantities of data. —Alan Lightman september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025

The robot uses Foxconn’s Chinese large language model for its communication, while US tech giant NVIDIA provided Nurabot’s core AI and robotics infrastructure. —Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025

And many patients are using large language models, or LLMs, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini, to interpret their records. —Kate Ruder, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above

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