AI Glossary termLarge Language Model
A model trained on enormous amounts of text to predict what comes next, which turns out to be enough to write, summarise, translate and reason.
Also called: LLM
A model trained on enormous amounts of text to predict what comes next, which turns out to be enough to write, summarise, translate and reason.
Why it mattersGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Qwen - all LLMs. Everything else is packaging around them.
See also Foundation Model, Token, Transformer
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