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

Speaking at the same event on Thursday via video, Elon Musk, said the next generation of his company xAI’s large language model, Grok 3, would be released in one to two weeks, touting it as the best AI chatbot on the market. —John Liu, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025

For now, here is a brief review of indirect prompt injections: Prompts in the context of large language models (LLMs) are instructions, provided either by the chatbot developers or by the person using the chatbot, to perform tasks, such as summarizing an email or drafting a reply. —Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025

Unlike large language models such as ChatGPT, AI models built with this framework can incorporate the laws of physics to test the plausibility of their predictions. —Tharin Pillay, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025

Is Meta’s ad platform more insulated from the adoption of large language models? —Zev Fima, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above