LLM Introduction

What is an LLM?

LLM stands for Large Language Model.

An LLM is a type of artificial intelligence model designed to understand, generate, and interact using human language. It learns patterns, meanings, and relationships in text by being trained on massive amounts of written data such as books, articles, websites, and conversations.

• Large Language Models are deep neural networks trained on massive amounts of text data to understand and generate human language.

In simple terms: 👉 LLMs teach machines how to read, write, and reason with language.

Although originally focused only on text, modern LLMs can now process multiple modalities such as images, audio, and code.

First chatbot that humans developed - Eliza.

Why are LLMs called “Large”?

They are called large because of:

Billions (or trillions) of parameters

Training on huge datasets More parameters → better ability to capture complex language patterns.

Examples of LLMs

Some well-known Large Language Models include:

GPT (ChatGPT)

BERT

LLaMA

Claude

PaLM

llm vs nlp nlp is designed for specific tasks like language translation, on the other side llm can do a wide range of nlp tasks.