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large language model

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

noun

plural

large language models
  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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In January, Moonshot AI, a China-based startup seeking a $10 billion valuation, released Kimi K2.5 — an open-source large language model with coding abilities neck-to-neck with Claude Opus 4.5, which at the time was Anthropic’s most advanced model.

From MarketWatch

And it’s still hoping that the large language model technology that powers chatbots can supercharge its Alexa-branded smart home offerings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Google and Microsoft, Amazon’s competitors in the cloud-computing and enterprise software businesses, had been investing billions in large language model development for years—Google in its own models, and Microsoft through its partnership with OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal

Much of that fervor can be traced back to the so-called DeepSeek moment in early 2025, when the Chinese startup released a large language model seen as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal

Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, “has committed to covering 100% of electricity price increases that consumers face from our data centers,” the company’s external affairs head, Sarah Heck, said in a post on X during the State of the Union address.

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