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Large Language Model (LLM)
An AI system trained on massive amounts of text to understand and generate human-like language; the technology behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Origin · no single documented coiner
“Language model” is long-standing computational-linguistics terminology; the “large” qualifier came into common use across research and industry around 2020 as model sizes jumped, without a single documented coiner.
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