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

When needed, Autodesk tweaks these tools to meet specific requirements but prefers not to commit to any one large language model (LLM). —Peter High, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

Training for a large language model like GPT-3 uses roughly the same amount of energy as 130 U.S. homes. —Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024

The mainframe computer, the personal computer, the Internet, data science, machine learning, and large language models have made possible astounding advances in scientific research, communication, education, public health, and a thousand other realms of human endeavor. —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024

In August, for example, another large language model program called Atlantis uncovered a separate bug in SQLite. —Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2019, in the meaning defined above