Large Language Model
Also: LLM
The technology behind AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. An LLM is a type of AI trained on enormous amounts of text — books, websites, articles, code — until it learned to read, write, summarize, answer questions, and hold conversations. The 'large' refers to the scale of training and the model's internal complexity, not something you interact with directly. When people say 'AI,' they usually mean an LLM.
In practice
When you type a message to Claude and it writes back a coherent, relevant response — that's a large language model at work. It's software trained on enormous amounts of text until it learned to read, write, reason, and converse. The "large" refers to scale of training, not something you see directly. Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini are all LLMs.
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