What is Large Language Model?

Large Language Model

Definition A type of AI model trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human language. LLMs predict the next token in a sequence, a simple objective that gives rise to surprisingly broad reasoning and language capabilities.

In Depth

Modern LLMs contain billions to trillions of parameters and are pre-trained on internet-scale corpora before being fine-tuned for specific tasks. Examples include GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Llama. Their emergent abilities — such as multi-step reasoning and code generation — were not explicitly programmed but arose from scale.

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