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

For example, machine learning models trained to identify patterns of misinformation can serve as an early warning system, while large language models (LLMs) can complement these efforts. —Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025

Smallville is a Farmville-like simulation involving characters that communicate and interact with each other under the control of large language models. —Will Knight, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2025

The new processors will also will be powerful enough to to run large language models and image generation models from companies including Meta, Mistral and Stability AI, Nvidia said. —Kif Leswing, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025

Yet already, quantum computing is benefiting from advances in classical AI: researchers are using large language models, transformer models, and other AI architectures to help design quantum devices, develop software, and improve quantum error correction. —Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above