large language model

American  

[lahrj lang-gwij mahd-uhl] / ˈlɑrdʒ ˈlæŋ gwɪdʒ ˈmɑd əl /

noun

large language models plural

1. Computers. LLM, a type of machine learning software model trained on extremely large sets of language data, and designed to generate new, naturalistic responses to written or spoken prompts.

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Example Sentences

Karpathy has joined Nick Joseph’s pretraining team, responsible for the large-scale training runs that gives the Claude large language model its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

A large language model can only tell you, perhaps very quickly and effectively, what’s already been said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

The deal highlights a resurgence in demand for central processing units, or CPUs, for AI agents and large language model post-training.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

So from this perspective, I can see how someone reeling from a major loss might wish to feed scraps of data into a large language model and have it spit out a loved-one-shaped bot.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

An expanded agreement includes a pledge by Anthropic, developer of the Claude large language model, to spend more than $100 billion over the next 10 years on Amazon External link’s AWS artificial intelligence technologies.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026