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Home/Glossary/Large Language Model (LLM)
AI Glossary Term

What does “Large Language Model (LLM)” mean?

Definition

A language model trained on massive text corpora to generate and analyze text.

Related terms

LLM-as-Judge
Using a language model to score or compare outputs from other models during evaluation.
Foundation Model
A large pre-trained model that can be adapted to many downstream tasks.
Multimodal Model
A model that can process or generate multiple data types such as text, image, and audio.
Token
A chunk of text processed by language models, such as a word piece or symbol.
SentencePiece
A language-agnostic tokenizer that learns subword units directly from raw text without pre-splitting on whitespace.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.

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