Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
GPT-4 (OpenAI)
- Is an instance
Claude 3 (Anthropic)
- Is an instance
Llama 3 (Meta)
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A BERT-based classifier fine-tuned only to label sentiment is not typically called an LLM in the generative sense
Editorial commentary
LLMs underpin most current generative AI writing tools (GPT family, Claude, Gemini, Llama, etc.). They differ from earlier task-specific NLP models in their scale and in-context learning ability. For disclosure purposes the relevant attributes are the model name, version, training-data cutoff, and whether retrieval augmentation or fine-tuning was applied.
References
- Bommasani et al. 2021 ‘On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models’
- Brown et al. 2020 ‘Language Models are Few-Shot Learners’
Also known as
LLM · Foundation language model
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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