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

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The company also introduced the latest iteration of its large language model, Llama 3, a move that puts Meta’s AI tools squarely in competition with the leading AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and Anthropic’s Claude. —Will Oremus, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024

The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, performs better than most current AI models, the company said in a blog post. —Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024

With just a few simple prompts, large language models (LLMs) at the time could scour their vast databases of articles, books, and archives and spit out relatively coherent short-form essay or question responses in seconds. —Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024

First, ‘the Analyzer’ employs a variety of large language models (LLMs) to define the work’s structural patterns and psychological values, or ‘BookDNA’. —Molly Flatt, Fortune Europe, 17 Apr. 2024

Together The breakthrough was made possible by recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the type of AI that underpins chatbots like ChatGPT. —Billy Perrigo, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024

Though Alibaba’s interest in AI expands far beyond its retail arm to large language models that could compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft, cofounder Jack Ma extolled the virtues of the technology, urging the company to continue to lean into AI hype. —Bysasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024

Since July of last year, American military officials have been experimenting with large language models for military tasks, according to Bloomberg. —Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024

Artificial intelligence systems, which include large language models and question-and-answer bots like ChatGPT, can quickly synthesize information and automate tasks. —Rob Copeland, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above