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

Audits on oil wells, which previously took weeks to prepare, can now be generated from field notes within a day, using large language models, or LLMs, trained on years of auditing. —Byvivienne Walt, Fortune, 26 June 2024

Chatbots use large language models, or LLMs, that consume vast amounts of text from the internet and can be used for various tasks, including generating text by predicting the next word in a sentence. —Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 June 2024

Apart from transport, Grab also now uses large language models to translate menu items and reviews into languages where the firm doesn’t already have a training set—for example, from Mandarin into Korean. —Amanda Gerut, Fortune Asia, 19 June 2024

Amazon is lacking the data and chips needed to run the large language model for its new voice assistant. —Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 17 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above